FBI warns of $100M cyber-threat to small business
Cyberthieves are hacking into small- and medium-sized organizations every week and stealing millions of dollars in an ongoing scam that has moved about US$100 million out of U.S. bank accounts, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Tuesday. Read more...

Judge says TD Ameritrade's proposed security fixes aren't enough

PayChoice breached for the second time this month

Citing cybercrime, FBI director doesn't bank online

Operation Phish Phry hooks 100 in U.S. and Egypt

Lawsuits over Heartland data breach folded into one

London Stock Exchange may buy Turquoise trading technology

TD Bank struggles to fix computer glitch

Google and bank end dispute over Gmail account

Bank sues Google for ID of Gmail user

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How tech is changing banks
If you know where to look, there is incredible innovation happening in the banking space, especially in how customers interact with banks -- and their money, says columnist Mike Elgan.

Q&A: Christopher Crowhurst discusses Thomson Reuters' massive virtualization initiative
Thomson Reuters is in the middle of a massive virtualization effort involving 20,000 physical machines growing at an alarming rate. The company is increasing storage utilization through virtualization and thin provisioning and using the capital expenditure saving from that to pay for its server virtualization project, which overall will reduce its power consumption as well.

Portrait of a Security-Savvy User
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., which settled $1.88 quadrillion (thousand trillion) in securities transactions last year, takes information security pretty seriously. Here's what that means.

Q&A: Head of PCI council sees security standard as solid, despite breaches
Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council, spoke with Computerworld about the organization's current thinking on the PCI standard, what's changed since he took the helm in 2007, and what he makes so far of the Hannaford and Okemo data breaches.

Recession revisited: Will this time be different for IT?
Enhanced credibility, cost-saving technologies and the global leveraging of resources gives IT more tools to face the current economic downturn than it had in after dot-com bust.

Opinion: Security policy in the age of compliance
Anton Chuvakin wraps up our series on security policy issues in the age of FISMA, HIPAA, and PCI DSS with a look at the big picture.

Q&A: Revolution Money CEO aims to shake up payment card industry
Jason Hogg, CEO of Revolution Money, discusses the RevolutionCard, transactions in the age of the social network and how merchants can build customers' loyalty even if they don't have their names on file.

FAQ: What Visa's payment application security mandates mean
The companies that accept payment card transactions will eventually have to play by new rules being laid down by Visa to bolster data security.

Intrusion detection in the age of compliance
In the third article in his "Age of Compliance" series, Dr. Anton Chuvakin looks at how intrusion detection is specified -- or not -- by three major standards: FISMA, HIPAA and PCI-DSS.

Left Coast Perks
The second in a series of articles on hiring trends and work environments at companies on Computerworld's annual Best Places to Work in IT list.

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