Date: Thu, 7. August 2008 13:07:18

He is the baby-faced everyman caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare of credit score woes. He?s the FreeCreditReport.com guy, and you are so totally in love with him you want to have like, 10 million of his babies.

Date: Thu, 14. February 2008 00:34:21

Tomorrow when you open your e-mail inbox, you might find a Valentine's day e-card. You know e-cards. They're cards you can send for free on the internet. If you do get one of these greetings, open with caution. It could contain a virus.

Date: Tue, 22. July 2008 05:10:15

ROTHERHAM, England, July 22 (UPI) -- A Rotherham, England, woman said she almost split from her boyfriend of four years after a store's Web site said her card had been used to buy condoms.

Date: Wed, 13. August 2008 18:36:48

TALLADEGA, Ala., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- The Talladega Superspeedway is offering auto racing fans a $45 gas card in an effort to help them save on gas purchases.

Date: Wed, 7. January 2009 03:49:24

(AHN) - Donovan McNabb teamed up with Brian Westbrook on a touchdown pass-play to lift the Philadelphia Eagles to a 26-14 victory over the Minnesota Vikings Sunday in the NFC Wild Card game. - Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:20:18 GMT

Date: Mon, 29. September 2008 16:43:37

Tech's much-coveted R D tax credit finally wins approval of both House and Senate but how to pay for the credit derails the effort before it can be sent to the White House. The R D tax credit, which has expired, has blocked U.S. businesses from assuming the credit in their 2008 financial reporting results or in forecasting project costs. - Both the U.S. House and Senate have approved a two-year renewal of the expired R amp;D tax credit that the IT industry holds dear, but differences still remain before the bill can be sent to the White House for President Bush's approval. Following a 93-2 vote by the Senate Sept. 24 t...

Date: Thu, 18. December 2008 14:48:00

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Credit card firm Discover Financial Services said Thursday that it swung to a profit in its fiscal fourth quarter, aided by $535 million of gains from an antitrust lawsuit settlement, but cautioned it expects to charge off more than 6% of its loans in 2009 as economic stresses reach historic proportions. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/xaQD_Qj6018N-gQweyavO22ntUY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/xaQD_Qj6018N-gQweyavO22ntUY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.marketwatch.com/~f/marketwatch/financial?a=pEeuX8lC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/marketwatch/financial?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.marketwatch.com/~f/marketwatch/financial?a=AKMOzcmZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/marketwatch/financial?i=AKMOzcmZ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.marketwatch.com/~f/marketwatch/financial?a=WNVcfvBW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/marketwatch/financial?i=WNVcfvBW" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.marketwatch.com/~f/marketwatch/financial?a=Y9HuqFbF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/marketwatch/financial?d=52" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/marketwatch/financial/~4/3dxrbGsJ7c0" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 2. October 2008 15:04:48

alphadogg writes "The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, the organization that sets technical requirements for processing credit- and debit-cards, Wednesday issued revised security rules, while also indicating next year it will focus on new guidelines for end-to-end encryption, payment machines and virtualization. PCI adherence has been pushed big time in the industry to help avoid more big breaches such as the one involving TJX. Those familiar with the standard say it could be expensive to implement and that there are some things those using wireless LANs will need to pay especially close attention to."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Thu, 7. August 2008 15:05:14

snocrossgjd writes "In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan aren't hackers — they're students in a computer-security class at Sonoma State University. Their professor, George Ledin, has showed them how to penetrate even the best antivirus software."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Tue, 12. August 2008 00:56:15

AP - Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Matt Jones pleaded not guilty Monday to possession of cocaine, a charge that carries up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.