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The PCI Security Standards Council's mission is to enhance payment account data security by driving education and awareness of the PCI Security Standards. The organization was founded by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa, Inc.

Security related lawsuit involving online banking... links to laws

Interesting article IT network and security news, posted on eweek.com. This breach at Sony made headlines and the article suggests 10 things that we as computer users should be aware of and suggestions of steps we should take.

Good site to help you keep up with new threats.

Be careful with online commerce. Craiglists offers the LEAST security for these types of transactions.

Another good article about China and Internet security.

This article gives the positives and negatives of online banking. The positives were saving money, convenience, and security. The negatives were being "timed out" and having to start over and learning how to do what you need to do on the site.

"Sandra Thornton is eager to generate new business for the sewing plant she manages just outside Centerville, Tenn. When the machines at Southeastern Pant are running full tilt, the plant's 55 employees can crank out 2,000 pairs a week for police officers, firefighters, and security guards all over the U.S. Nestled among the rolling, ranch-dotted hills of the central part of the Volunteer State, Thornton's plant has managed to stay open when many clothing companies are sending work overseas, by focusing on custom orders. "All the police agencies want their own stripes, their own pocket sizes," she says. "Our equipment is very easy to change over.""

People of rural areas will benefit from broadband Internet, becuase it will enable them to connect to millions of other people. Also, store owners and other businesses will thrive with broadband Internet.

Phishing on Facebook is a growing problem. Most people use one password for everything and con artists know this.

Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is "going dark" as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.

Interesting report on browser vulnerabilities. This report shows Firefox, followed by Safari being the most vulnerable browsers.

"business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce conducted by way of the Internet or other electronic networks. E-commerce originated in a standard for the exchange of documents during the 1948 - 49 Berlin blockade and airlift. Various industries elaborated upon the system until the first general standard was published in 1975. The electronic data interchange (EDI) standard is unambiguous, independent of any particular machine, and flexible enough to handle most simple electronic transactions. In addition to standard forms for business-to-business transactions, e-commerce encompasses much wider activity - for example, the deployment of secure private networks (intranets) for sharing information within a company, as well as selective extensions of a company's intranet to collaborating business networks (extranets). A new form of cooperation known as a virtual company, actually a network of firms, each performing some of the processes needed to manufacture a product or deliver a service, has flourished"

Here is Answer.com information on E-commerce.

A good reference for anyone interested in cybersecurity and cyberattacks.

A good reference for anyone interested in cybersecurity and cyberattacks.

I found this interesting

Good article about the use of weak passwords and how easy they are to hack.

Used in my second paper

Used in my send paper

I found this article to be very interesting..