Recent Articles
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CardSystems to Congress: We Face ‘Imminent Extinction’
Despite a steady stream of reported data thefts this year—most recently by CardSystems Solutions Inc.—members of Congress are unable to agree on how to combat the growing threat to consumer privacy. The roster of divergent potential solutions grew again Thursday. “We need to do everything possible to ensure that our personal information remains privileged and…
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Contradictory Charges Rattle Data-Loss Case
During congressional testimony Thursday, executives from bank and credit card companies involved in the largest credit card data loss ever pointed fingers at a new culprit for gaps in security: the auditors who had certified the credit card processing systems as being up to snuff. But in an interview with Ziff Davis Internet News, those…
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Debian Core Consortium Continues to Come Together
Insiders say that the efforts to form a Debian Core Consortium are continuing to go well. There will be two types of participants in the DCC (Debian Core Consortium): the distribution members, which will actually distribute the DCC Linux, and associate members, which are companies and organizations with a vested interest in DCC’s goal of…
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Congress at Odds Over Data Breaches
Despite a steady stream of data breach disclosures this year—most recently by CardSystems Solutions Inc. —members of Congress are unable to agree on how to combat the growing threat to consumer privacy, and the roster of divergent measures grew again Thursday. “We need to do everything possible to ensure that our personal information remains privileged…
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IT Consulting Forecast Good, But With Challenges
The next five years hold a lot of opportunity for IT consultants as clients strive to maximize their competitiveness in a “more for less economy,” according to James Champy, chairman of consulting at Perot Systems Corp. But for clients to maximize the benefits of IT outsourcing and consulting, they must not lose sight of the…
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CardSystems Solutions Becomes a Cautionary Tale
Poor old CardSystems Solutions got thwacked in the head with a major trout this week by Visa and American Express. Both companies said that they would no longer do business with the ACH (automated clearing house). MasterCard has given CSS until the end of August to demonstrate compliance with MC’s standards or face the same…
