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Heartland CIO: "I don't think software will ever be secure again."

Heartland Payment Systems isn't necessarily synonymous with "great security," these days. The company's colossal data breach, in which as many as 130 million credit and debit card numbers were

Heartland embraces encrypted payment system

Heartland Payment Systems is heading to a place where many companies are likely to go. It is implementing an end-to-end encryption system for payment transactions. Heartland is taking this step in

Heartland settles with American Express

Heartland Payment Systems, one of the nation's largest payments processors, has not had a good year. Its systems have been hacked, data from users has been stolen, and embarrassment and financial

A plea in the massive Heartland breach case

The fallout from the massive data breach at Heartland Payment System continues. In the latest chapter, Albert Gonzalez, the Miami man accused of helping to orchestrate the largest computer hacking

Number of lost personal records grows to 220 million

There were fewer actual breaches reported by businesses and government agencies so far this year compared to 2008, but the number of actual personal records stolen soared. The Identity Theft Resource

Guilty plea in massive computer hacking scheme

In what's being called the largest identity theft case in U.S. history, a Miami man pleaded guilty last week to charges that he hacked into the computers of some of the nation's biggest retailers and

Biggest hacking case ever sends security warning

An indictment in the largest case of computer crime and identity theft ever, brought by government prosecutors, offers a clear warning to retail and bank IT executives that it is time to raise the

Heartland's CEO: Lessons from a bad data breach

There's nothing worse than a data breach that costs millions. But Heartland Payment Systems Inc., which had to deal with a data breach that exposed 100 million credit and debit cards earlier this

Heartland plans aggressive encryption system

Heartland Payment Systems revealed last week that a security breach has cost it more than $12 million so far. And, so this doesn't happen again, the company which processes credit cards, debit cards