HELSINKI, Finland - Twenty years after the first PC virus was set loose, organized criminal gangs are flooding the online world with increasingly wide phishing scams. That's the view from F-Secure Corp., the international Internet security firm, which found in a recent scan of top-level domain names (.com, .net, .biz,...

PHILADELPHIA - Employees at Philadelphia Federal Credit Union will soon be surfing the Web to purchase supplies and file their travel expenses. The organization is the first credit union to sign up to use the expensewatch.com on-demand expense control and reporting system. A Web-based application-service provider, expensewatch.com offers three modules-travel...

MIRAMAR, Fla. - In the Sunshine State, where the "big one" seems to hit again and again, one of the state's largest credit unions has prepared for hurricane season in a big way.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - No one at NASA Federal Credit Union needs to worry now about backup tapes being eaten by the dog or destroyed by dropping them down the stairs. Those are just some of the stories that Richard Heitmann has heard in his role as vice president of...

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Stanford Federal Credit Union has long been on the leading edge of technology, so perhaps it's not too surprising the CU was the initial user of security tools that now are sweeping much of the online banking world. That would be those from PassMark Security, a...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Spending on core systems at banks and credit unions alike continues to be a growth industry, although their paths often diverge based on size. And whether the approach is to update piece-by-piece or "rip and replace," the task remains daunting for front office and back shop alike,...

SEATTLE - The simplicity of the "InfoGuy" who so helpfully shows members the way to financial insight through the Web site at Whatcom Educational Credit Union (www.wecu.com) disguises the complex, growing knowledge base driving the self-help solution.

PASADENA, Calif. - Wescom Credit Union members who took a fraudulent path to what they thought was their credit union's Web site got a friendly warning recently: a vivid red-and-black skull and crossbones instead of the CU's logo in prominent display.