PCI Compliance and Your Small Business

PCI (payment card industry) compliance may not be a term you hear frequently as a small business owner. However, it has significant impact to the level of risk your business assumes in payment processing if you accept debit cards and credit cards from customers as a form of payment.







143M Consumers Potentially Impacted By Equifax Data Breach

An alarming cyber security attack on Equifax has compromised personal information of an estimated 143 million people across the United States. To put that number into perspective, that’s nearly half of the country’s population. According to reports from Equifax, “cyber criminals have accessed sensitive information such as names, social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and the numbers of some driver’s licenses.”



CPSC, Ameriwood Home Recalls 1.6M Chests Due to Entrapment Hazards

Mainstays is a popular furniture brand, and many Americans have some sort of furniture piece from the brand in their homes. Unfortunately, a voluntary recall has just been issued for the four-drawer chests from Ameriwood Home amid concerns “about their stability and entrapment hazards.” According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the chests “are unstable if not anchored to the wall, posing serious tip-over and entrapment hazards that can result in death or injuries to children.”