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Accessing your computer remotely

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Often, users will want to access their work computers from home, when traveling, and even when at market. Merchant Plus!, like any PC based application can be accessed from anywhere in the world using a standard browser with Internet access.  In fact, the entire operating environment of any PC can be accessed from anywhere Internet […]

Ransomware attacks makes us “WannaCry!”

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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 […]

QIR Certified Credit Card Implementations

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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 […]

Windows XP is Obsolete

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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 […]