MerchantWARE Goes Blackberry, and the story of the unvalidated payment application standard

The Merchant Maven posted a release about Merchant Warehouse’s new Blackberry version of MerchantWARE, following in the footsteps of the apparently successful iPhone application. This new trend is yet another example of a need for good moble payment security. While the software company states that the application complies with both PCI DSS and PABP, it is not listed on the official Validated Payment Application list as either validated under PABP or PA-DSS. That only means that they have not had an assessment performed and paid the required fees to get it listed on the site. Acquirers are wary of Point of Sale (POS) vendors and POS implementers, all because of a few bad apples. The restaurateur is at a particular ...
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