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.
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.
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.
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.
"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"
A wave of cyberattacks aimed at 27 American and South Korean government agencies and commercial Web sites temporarily jammed more than a third of them over the past five days, and several sites in South Korea came under renewed attack on Thursday.
The White House declined several requests for interviews or to say whether Mr. Obama as a matter of policy supports or opposes the use of American cyberweapons.