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	<description>Providing merchant account holders with news and information about processing credit cards, checks, and other electronic transactions.</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wardriving&#8221;&#8230;.are you in drivers seat of your business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced 11 people from the U.S., Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus, and China are being charged for hacking into retailers' computers and stealing more than 41 million credit card numbers. The perpetrators supposedly drove around in their vehicles with laptops, looking for unsecured "Wi-Fi" network connections, a technique called "wardriving." Is your business protected?]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whateverymerchantshouldknow.com/index.php/2008/08/21/pci-compliance-wardriving/</link>
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		<title>What is PCI Compliance? And should it concern me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a merchant, vendor or service provider reading this information for the first time, and have not heard about PCI compliance it might be time-or past time-to question and contact your merchant service provider, acquirer or credit card issuer. ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whateverymerchantshouldknow.com/index.php/2008/08/12/what-is-pci-compliance/</link>
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		<title>Do I need to replace my credit card terminal?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One question that comes up frequently from merchants is “I was told that I need to update my terminal. Is this true?” The answer is...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whateverymerchantshouldknow.com/index.php/2008/06/27/replace-credit-card-terminal/</link>
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		<title>Check Image Volume Increases Over 300 Percent in 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Record-breaking numbers flooded SVPCO, the paper and electronic check exchange business of The Clearing House Payments Company last year.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whateverymerchantshouldknow.com/index.php/2008/06/18/check-image-volume-increases-over-300-percent-in-2007/</link>
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		<title>Truncation- What the law says about displaying credit card numbers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is the merchant’s responsibility to ensure that they are in compliance with the laws of the states in which they process. Do you know your states rules on credit card truncation? ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whateverymerchantshouldknow.com/index.php/2008/06/09/truncation-what-the-law-says-about-displaying-credit-card-numbers/</link>
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