Friday, a new ransomware virus called “WannaCry” infected the systems of over 100,000 organizations in over 100 countries. Britain’s National Health Service was affected to the point that this preventable virus might have caused deaths! Russia’s Interior Ministry, Spain’s Telefonica, FedEx Corp. in the U.S., and French car maker Renault all were affected. Sure, this […]
Announcing EMV with Signature Capture
Smyth Retail is happy to announce support (in version 5.2) for the Ingenico iSC250 Payment Terminal with electronic signature capture for EMV processing using chip cards. Like, the Verifone VX 805 (which doesn’t support signature capture) it offers the highest security by combining End to End encryption with EMV processing. It has a large, easy […]
QIR Certified Credit Card Implementations
As is the tradition, the PCI –Data Security Council (PCI-DSC) constantly changes regulations to keep up with an ever evolving cat and mouse game to protect credit card information from criminals and hackers. The latest change requires that a QIR -Implementation Statement be completed every time a retailer implements or changes their PA-DSS credit card […]
Smyth Retail earns PCI-DSS Qualified Integrators and Resellers (QIR)™ certification
Congratulations to our very own Paul Hudak for earning certification for this important new PCI Requirement which will help retailers implement and maintain PCI-Compliant systems that protect themselves and their clients from credit card fraud. The new PCI Standards require that ANY PA-DSS credit card equipment/software installed for a retailer must be done so by […]
Windows XP is Obsolete
Microsoft stopped providing security updates for Windows XP in April of 2014. Nor will Windows XP run our latest version of Merchant Plus! (5.1). If you didn’t have a reason to replace your XP computers before, this should be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. We just now received notice from LogMeIn that after […]
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