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LOS ANGELES - A recent report on Internet use from a major research university can tell decision makers a lot about those who matter most to the nation's credit unions - individual households and the consumers living there. The study is the UCLA Internet Report 2001 - "Surveying the Digital...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - In the weeks since Microsoft launched its newest operating system with assertions that it's the most secure thing yet, serious breaches have been discovered, including the latest, which was severe enough that the federal government is recommending a key XP feature be disabled. That would be the...

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Credit Union League is facing a short, three-month state legislative session to see three league-supported bills passed by the state legislature before it adjourns March 14. House Bill 1140 and Senate Bill 202 are identical bills that would amend the state's field-of-membership law to allow credit...

RICHMOND, Va. - The Virginia Credit Union League is following a bill-H.B. 940-introduced January 9 by Del. Harvey Morgan (R-98) that establishes requirements for conducting payday lending. Among the bill's provisions, it caps the fee that a payday lender can charge at $15 per $100 advanced to the borrower; the...

Of course, Microsoft is the biggest of targets for computer criminals. But it's not just size that's the issue here, Butler says. "Microsoft's leadership extends its operating system into realms previously untrod by others," he says. For instance, "UNIX has no plug-and-play equivalent," says Butler, whose own company has worked...

One way technology is combining the human element with the strengths of the Internet are "webinars" - which typically involve a meeting room, a PC and a projector, along with someone at the other end making the presentation as if it were a live remote on television, only with some...

Calling someone a hacker used to be almost a compliment, or at least a begrudging recognition of his intelligence and ability to crack into computer systems. But that was before cyber-terrorism joined the physical kind as a fact of life for us all. Just as those threats have changed and...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Gov. George Pataki in his Jan. 9th State of the State address, mentioned and indicated his support of two issues high on credit unions' agenda. In a discussion of what small business owners in New York State "need to grow and prosper," Pataki said the state will...