Have you ever tried to make a payment with your credit card that is a bit on the high side of things but still well within your limit? I do that once a year when I get my hosting invoice from Wiredtree. Well, to be precise, Wiredtree tries to charge the card directly. Still, it [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Banks Not Required to Utilize “The Best” Security?
In May of 2009 a Sanford, Maine based company, Patco Construction Co, filed suit against Ocean Bank, a division of Bridgeport, Conn. Based People’s United Bank. Patco used online banking to make weekly payroll payments and claimed that cyber thieves had used a Trojan (ZeuS) to steal Patco’s online credential and then heisted $588,000 over [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Manage your money in Linux with HomeBank
For many Linux users one area where Linux needs some improvement is money management. Yes there is the very powerful GnuCash (check out GnuCash in my article “GnuCash: Open source Accounting/Financing goodness“). But many users find GnuCash to be too much power for what they need. There is also the slick KMyMoney, but that depends [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Your Bank Might Know More About You Than You Know
Many Internet users, especially those that have social networking accounts, expose information about themselves but also friends and colleagues on the Internet. Everyone probably read stories in newspapers that cyber criminals are using those information to create false identities or trap friends and colleagues into thinking that they are actually someone they know. What has [...]