BOXBOROUGH, Mass. - A new network worm that targets a well-publicized vulnerability in Windows servers and workstations has infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and even shut down Maryland's Department of Motor Vehicles for an afternoon. But the Internet traffic jam caused by the so-called Lovsan or MSblast worm...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - One of the biggest of the big boys is dropping its bill presentment service altogether, but to other financial institutions that might be thinking of killing off that half of the electronic bill-paying enterprise, a leading industry analyst says, "Don't go there." "By dropping its bill presentment...

NEEDHAM, Mass. - When the topic is the latest and greatest in bank and credit union service delivery channels, a mainstay of retail services hardware infrastructure - the automated teller machine - is often overlooked. Yet the venerable ATM and point-of-sale (POS) processing space could well be the foundation of...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Many credit union intranets have quickly morphed from a place to post company picnic announcements to an interactive tool that can allow tellers learn how to conduct complex transactions live without losing eye contact with the member. That's the kind of robust functionality the internal Internet...

STAMFORD, Conn. - If you haven't been hit personally by identity fraud or credit card theft in the past year, you likely know someone who has. That's because, according to a new national survey, 5.5% of U.S. adults (more than 11 million) were victimized by credit card fraud in the...

WASHINGTON - For the past 11 years, Callahan & Associates has published its Credit Union Technology Survey, a 250-page or so tome of numbers, tables and commentary, and one of the things folks flip to first is market share among the big vendors vying for the hearts and wallets of...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - While it may seem counterintuitive, going back to "dumb terminals" may be the wave of the future for many credit unions. Thin-client technology, which relies on a back-office server to power the applications for end users scattered throughout the enterprise, has gained serious traction in the past...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - E-mail marketing to members is a growing art and science, and credit unions by nature seem to be crafting individual approaches. But they tend to agree on one thing: Don't serve up spam. "We avoid spamming. We're an online credit union and we try to push that...