European Union

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  Revealed: Secret PIIs in Your Unstructured Data: Opinion

  By Andy Green  |  March 22, 2013

  If you know someone's phone, Social Security or credit card number, you have a direct link to their identity.

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  Threat of the Week: What's Really Keeping You Up At Night

  By Robert McGarvey  |  February 5, 2013

  DDoS getting the press but fraud's getting the attention in the executive suite.

• World Council, European CU Leaders Meet With EU Policymakers on Privacy Rules

  December 5, 2012

  World Council and European Network of Credit Unions meet with policymakers to discuss regulatory proposals that would affect credit unions.

• WOCCU Expands Its Global Reach

  By Natasha Chilingerian  |  October 14, 2012

  Just like the 14,000 member credit unions it supports, the World Council of Credit Unions in Madison, Wis., must intermittently reevaluate its structure and programs in order to best meet the needs of those it serves.

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  WOCCU Expands Global Reach Through Advocacy: Print Preview

  By Natasha Chilingerian  |  October 11, 2012

  Under a new leader, the World Council pursues new priorities. Get the story in this preview from next week's print edition.

• European Union Stages Huge DDoS Exercise

  By Robert McGarvey  |  October 4, 2012

  Banks, governments, Internet providers and businesses across Europe faced a massive, but simulated, distributed denial of service attack on Thursday

• Europeans Visit Clackamas FCU

  April 22, 2012

  Financial experts and policy advisers serving nine European Union countries visited Clackamas Federal Credit Union as part of a multicity fact finding tour of U.S. financial markets. The delegation wanted to explore the differences between banks and credit unions and how credit unions navigated the global financial crisis.

• Editor’s Column: Around the CU World

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  April 15, 2012

  The trades last week came out against principal forgiveness, an idea floated by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Edward DeMarco. Political observers, however, noted that he has long been opposed to debt forgiveness and may be simply responding to consistent pressure from the Democratic Party.

• Around the CU World in 800 Words or Less

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  April 13, 2012

  Some thoughts on strategic defaults, remote deposit capture and even Greece.

• Missing From Data Leak Prevention: Guest Opinion

  By David Gibson  |  March 19, 2012

  In most organizations today, there is sensitive data that is overexposed and vulnerable to misuse or theft, leaving IT in an ongoing race to prevent data loss. Packet sniffers, firewalls, virus scanners and spam filters are doing a good job securing the borders, but what about insider threats?