| Merchant Risk Council Recommends Businesses Incorporate Extended ...
SEATTLE, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Merchant Risk Council (MRC), the retail industry's premier trade association for preventing online fraud and promoting secure e-commerce, announces the organization's recent incorporation of Trustwave's Extended Validation SSL Certificate to the Merchant Risk Council's Web site. Trustwave is a Certificate Authority (CA) and has issued SSL certificates to thousands of businesses worldwide. SSL is used to protect confidential information, such as credit card numbers or passwords, sent between Web users and Web sites. SSL, which stands for Secure Sockets Layer, Extended Validation (EV) certificates provide an additional layer of protection through a strictly defined issuance process to ensure that the certificate holding entity is validated as the entity they claim to be.
Practicing Safe E-Commerce
If you're headed to a brick-and-mortar store or a restaurant, don't leave a receipt on the table, and be sure to check your credit card bill to make sure the staff didn't heist your credit card number. Those are common-sense behaviors for real-world commerce, but similar security measures are in order when shopping online. Better Email Security Just Got A Whole Lot Easier. And Cheaper. Introducing Security Software As A Service From Webroot. Free 14-Day Trial. .
J Kooman from Canada writes:
Jean-Pierre De Montigny from Montreal, Canada writes: I don't know why people complain so much about a fee of $10 per month. It is peanuts for the value. You will go out one night and spend a multiple of this for beer.
Interest rate on credit card? There is no charge if you pay your balance. If not, get a loan instead!
Your joking right? President's Choice Financial does not charge anything
for writing checks or paying bills and they have a higher savings interest rates. The only catch is you have to bank online or use CIBC ABMs Posted 29/02/08 at 12:01 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Vesdia Launches Innovative Rewards Credit Cards
ATLANTA, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Vesdia Corporation, a leading provider of loyalty marketing services, announced today the launch of four new Visa(R) credit cards to support its leading reward programs BabyMint(TM), NestEggz(R), Stockback(R) and FundraiserRewards(R). The card launch in partnership with MXT Card Services provides consumers with additional earning opportunities in the rewards currencies that matter most to them. Consumers can apply for the Platinum Visa cards on the program websites through an easy to use web application, and earn rebates of 1% on any purchase made using the card. The new rewards credit cards offer competitive benefits and no annual fee. Cardholders can earn additional rebates of up to 26% of their purchases at hundreds of retailers in Vesdia's merchant network, including top brands like Eddie Bauer, Illuminations, Best Buy, Gap.com, Lands' End(R) and Banana Republic - representing over 100,000 store locations and service providers, hundreds of catalogs and gift cards, and more than 600 leading online retailers.
Jackets edge Sens 3-2 in O/T
You think teams have picked up on something here? The Columbus Blue Jackets were in the interesting position of scoring four times to the stick side on Senators goaltender Ray Emery in a 3-2 win over the Senators at Scotiabank Place last night.
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Ottawa Nortel workers wait for details
Ottawa Nortel employees were frustrated but not surprised yesterday as they waited to find out if their jobs were on the chopping block.
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Dear Abby: Keeping track of passwords is word to the wise online
Dear Abby: Allow me to draw your readers' attention to the importance of keeping track of their online log-in information. We all know it's smart to keep photocopies of our driver's license, credit cards, etc. With as much time as some of us spend online, in addition to the billions of dollars we spend there as a nation, it's wise to keep track of sundry log-in details as well. I keep track of the various Web sites from which I make purchases — the Web site name, user name and my password — because various Web sites require different information. Please suggest that your readers compile this information in a single document and print it out from time to time. Keep a hard copy in a safe place with other important papers. That way, if anything should happen to them, family members will be able to access these Web sites, delete saved credit card information and close the accounts.
Unsecured Internet purchases could prove disastrous
Students who regularly make online purchases from campus computers or from the university's wireless network might want to take some precautionary steps before punching in their credit card numbers. “If [students] are using the encrypted wireless [network], I think that's fine," said James Shook of Technology Support Services. “[But] I don't think I'd be doing that on the visitor's [network], which anyone can get on."Students can obtain a password for the secured wireless network at www.nss.appstate.edu. Appalachian State also offers free anti-virus software with built-in firewall and anti-spyware protection at www.antivirus.appstate.edu. Students transferring data should do so from secure Web sites, which are signified by “https" in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a secure lock graphic, said Director of Technology Support Tom M.
Convenience and more with E-Visa Lanes
With the new e-Visa lanes, travelers to Cambodia will be able to procure and use their visas efficiently and conveniently. With the internet, travelers no longer need to pay a visit to the Cambodian embassy. All they are required to do is to fill up an online application and pay via their credit card. An email will then be sent containing a visa which travelers need only print out and bring with them when they journey to Cambodia.
With already 30,000 travelers utilizing this service, it is fast becoming the preferred means of procuring a visa to Cambodia for most travelers. Suren, one of the many who benefited from e-Visa had this to say:
e-Visa is great for the tourists who are visiting several countries in South East Asia. To get visa of all countries would take more than 4 weeks, as the passport has to be returned before we could apply for another visa.
Online Security Fear: Bank Details Selling On The Web
One fraudster was also reported to be offering to sell 30,000 British credit card numbers for 1 each. A spokesman for the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, said the available data suggested the accounts on offer were active. "From what I have seen the information would be enough for someone to go online and spend money, but at this stage there is no way of knowing which cards are on there," he said. Mr Thomas will address a House of Commons committee on Tuesday to ask to be given extra powers to tackle data protection breaches. However, if the websites involved are based overseas, the Information Commissioner would be powerless to intervene. James Jones, a consumer education manager, described the discovery was a "huge concern" and called for an immediate crackdown on the sites.
MasterCard spent $1.8M lobbying
MasterCard International Inc. spent $1.8 million in 2007 to lobby on Internet-related issues and on fees merchants pay when customers use credit cards. The Purchase, N.Y.-based company spent $880,000 in the second half of 2007 to lobby Congress, according to a disclosure form posted online Feb. 13 by the Senate's public records office. It lobbied on gambling regulations and the use of credit cards to purchase illegal material on the Internet. The company spent $880,000 lobbying in the first half of the year on financial literacy, data security, microchip technology and fees banks pay to credit card networks. Congress is weighing tighter regulations on the credit card industry. The industry came under fire in December, when a Senate subcommitee issued a report denouncing practices that include raising interest rates for customers whose credit ratings decline, even if they make their card payments on time.
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