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Credit card processing fraud prevention and sales tax tips for online sellers

By Kerry Alexander, Avalara on Nov 25, 2015 4:04:49 PM

Repost from Avalara.com 

Internet and mobile sales continue to grow in popularity among shoppers and profitability for retailers. Last year, online sales in the U.S. topped $307 billion. The lucrative internet marketplace has also led to more online crime. Recent cyberattacks on U.S. businesses, which affected such titans of industry as Target, JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot and Premera, has Congress scrambling to craft laws to protect businesses and consumers against data breaches. And in 2014, businesses lost an estimated $3.5 trillion globally from retail fraud. Online sellers took the biggest hit, according to LexisNexis, primarily due to losses from card-not-present (CNP) credit card processing transactions. 

To cut down on card fraud, banks and credit card issuers are

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Urgent Reminder! PCCharge Ends Support 10/1/2015 - How to Stay PCI Compliant

By David Harper on Sep 11, 2015 5:04:00 PM

PCCharge has been providing a much needed service for ERP End-Users throughout the greater part of a decade, offering an on-site integrated credit card processing solution. The problem however is their solution is extremely vulnerable to hackers. The credit card data is not tokenized or stored in a vault and once a hacker gets access to the local server. Well at that point all the data is readily available for the taking.

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