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Credit issuer says data lost for 650,000 customers

Credit issuer says data lost for 650,000 customersNice going...I should try telling these various credit card company morons that I "lost" their bills and then send them an offer to protect their good names. This idiotic country has become absolutely beholden to computer systems that barely work and employees that...

Tags: Social Security, Identity theft, Operational accounting, Credit Bureaus, issuer

Discussion threads 2008-01-19

HP rejects compensation proposal

HP rejects compensation proposalSarbanes Oxley Section 305"The first proposal would have allowed HP's board of directors to recoup bonuses paid to executives in the event of a restatement of earnings "Doesn't Sarbanes Oxley cover this, I thought this was one of the reasons CEOs are campaining against it?"Section 305: Officer...

Tags: Benefits, Corporate governance, Corporate Greed, compensation, issuer, compensation proposal, board, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-03-16

64% of credit card companies still require SSN for online statements

Javelin Strategy & Research sent us some numbers regarding its survey of credit card issuers and ways to prevent identity theft. 64% of issuers still require full 9-­digit social security numbers when accessing online account information ...

Tags: Issuer, cardholder, issuer

Blog posts 2005-07-03

9.3 mln victims of identity theft

According to Javelin Strategy & Research, the annual dollar volume of identity fraud is $52.6 billion with 9.3 mln victims. Javelin reviewed Web sites and conducted mystery shopper research to score issuers on 38 categories of capabilities ranging from account alerts to the prohibition of certain transactions. The results show...

Tags: Javelin Strategy, issuer

Blog posts 2005-07-01

Relief from Sarbanes-Oxley on the way?

Relief from Sarbanes-Oxley on the way?Whats the problem?SOX for dummies:301, Independant auditors have to be independant.302, CFO & CEO have to state the accounts are not bogus.303, Company execs not allowed to coerce or bully independant auditors.304, If officers get a bonus based on false accounts they have to pay...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Financial accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, issuer

Discussion threads 2005-06-09

Additional Resources

Can the Microsoft cathedral really do business with the open-source bazaar?

It sounds like the "show-down" between Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith and a panel of open-source backers at the Open Source Business Conference OSBC on March 25 didn't plow any new ground. Smith extended the same olive branch that Microsoft has been holding aloft,...

Tags: GPL, Patent, Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-26

SISContents (zip)

SISContents is the tool for unpacking Symbian 9.x SIS packages (Nokia S60 3rd Edition and Sony Ericsson UIQ 3.x platforms are supported). It allows you to inspect the files contained in SIS package, to see certificates against which it was signed as well as to view the PKG script that...

Tags: SiS, SISContents, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-03-17

Failed Carbonite upgrade lets customers down

Failed Carbonite upgrade lets customers downCarbonite Online Backup - OutageI do not believe that Carnonite's response on this matter has been genuine.It was claimed that an upgrade was the reason for these difficulties and that the problem only affected customers who had installed version 3.5.89. This appears to be untrue.I...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Carbonite

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Apple Retail Store shopper to Steve Jobs: clerk had no right to ask for my ID

Update: Ignacio, who is the customer in this tale, informs The Consumerist thatthe store manager has apologized for asking for his ID. Apparently in a gracious mood, Ignacio has forgiven the store and plans to go in to shop soon. But he's doing so after all this: ...

Tags: Visa Inc., Steve Jobs, Card, Cardholder, Credit Card, Apple Inc., Citigroup Inc., Merchant, MasterCard International, Ignacio, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Microsoft and Google join OpenID, but where's Cisco?

Microsoft and Google join OpenID, but where's Cisco?Translation..."Less attractive is allowing users from other sites to log into your services...."Translated: it's a security risk. From the business' standpoint, they want to own the user. But also...they would have to trust the credentials coming in from an external issuer,...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenID, security, Cisco Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-07

Microsoft and Google join OpenID, but where's Cisco?

TechMeme is reporting that Microsoft, Google, Verisign, and IBM have all joined the OpenID board. Yahoo and Google are involved or getting involved with OpenID. But that's not enough. As Michael Arlington at Techcrunch points out: But it's not clear that any of them are...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., TechMeme, OpenID, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-02-07

News to know: Vista virtualization; OOXML; OpenOffice; Leopard developers; eBay

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules. Dan Farber: Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy Mary Jo Foley: IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML? Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week David Morgenstern: Mac...

Tags: Developer, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Utility Computing, Notebooks, Storage Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Notebooks & Tablets, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Fun with business intelligence

Fun with business intelligenceAnd @UBS......those managers from hell are cutting the IT project budget because of the subprime crisis....http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22219057.htmMonkiesRemember those monkies...err...expert analysts I was talking about yesterday?In this case they are called "mortgage brokers."The sub-prime collapse is an example of what happens when you create an elaborate system that depends...

Tags: Mortgages, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, information technology, business intelligence, mortgage

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

Fun with business intelligence

The financial industries, particularly those concerned with securities trading, employ a lot of genuine rocket scientists - physics grads who aren't intimidated by complexity and consider the transformational models used in finance about as unnatural as breathing. Unfortunately most of their work is not understood...

Tags: Risk, Financial, Credit Card, Industry, Pricing, Strategy, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Sales, Finance, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-01-15

How Dell screwed up my order

Yesterday I put in an order for twin Dell Vostro 200 mini-towers for the kids anyone who has two boys will understand why I had to get two identical machines. The transaction was simple, just using a credit card over a secure web site. I expected an uneventful sale and...

Tags: Card, Customer Service, Dell Computer Corp., Phone, Credit Card, Computer, Stephen, Sales Channel, Productivity, Financial Services, Sales, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-12-13

Apple, hackenomics, and the waning anonymity (and obsolescense) of cash

The noose is slowly tightening. A hundred years ago -- heck, even ten years ago -- for the most part, we didn't have to sacrifice our privacy just to participate in some transaction. Lots of merchants tried some still do to shake us down for our personal information...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Credit Card, Policy, Apple Inc., Noose, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-30

VeriSign EV Green Bar Extension (xpi)

Enables Firefox to recognize SSL servers that have implemented VeriSign, thawte and/or GeoTrust Extended Validation Certificates as currently supported by Microsoft in IE7. Installing this extension brings the same functionality to Firefox.This add-on turns the address bar green and displays certificate owner and CA issuer information when the browser receives...

Tags: VeriSign Inc., GeoTrust, Barry Ferg, Web Browsers, Security, Internet

Software downloads 2007-10-01

Will OMA DRM 2.0 be the solution?

U.K.-based tech site Telecoms.com offers this account of a recent digital rights roundtable held in London by mobile data platform company End2End.The dominant conclusion: "confusion and negative experiences over Digital Rights Management DRM is costing billions of dollars in revenue leakage." "Negative user experience" isnt helping much, either.Speaking to...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-02-16

IE 7 gives secure Web sites the green light

IE 7 gives secure Web sites the green lightWhat does one cost?I mean the "Microsoft seal of Approval." Sort of like TrustE and the "Good Housekeeping Seal," except that their price lists have been public for quite a while.Firefox the best of themFirefox the opensource web browser is most...

Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Web technology, Piracy, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Corp., small business, Web site, Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2007-02-02

CES Big Picture #3: Oh ye cable, R.I.P. Wireless cometh and take ye away

Its now going on two weeks since CES has ended and so far, Ive posted two big picture pieces; one on when size stopped mattering and the other on how Hi-Definitions virtuous circle is finally complete. Last week, I was at Mashup Camp 3 at MIT so I held off...

Tags: General, Entertainment, Mobile, Personal Technology, Wired &, Wireless, Telephony, Events, CES 2007, Cool Tech Gear, Disruptive Technology, Wireless Report Card, VoIP Hardware@CES, credit card, wireless, Consumer Electronics Show

Blog posts 2007-01-23