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WASHINGTON - Representative Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), the freshman author of the Credit Union Charter Choice Act, received polite but reserved treatment from the roughly 500 credit union directors and executives before whom he spoke on September 20 in the nation's capital. The Credit Union Charter Choice Act is a piece...

Be vigilant or be victimized - that's the approach CUs and vendors are taking on information security. Pages 22-26.

Find out how the last NCUA Board meeting with JoAnn Johnson and Debbie Matz turned out. Page 10.

LOWELL, Mass. - Message Secure Corp. is now offering its credit union and community bank clients a secure online document exchange service called PrivateExpress. The managed security services specialist says the hosted service operates similarly to e-mail and offers user authentication, encryption, digital signatures, content verification and other techniques to...

BEAVERTON, Ore. - An upgraded e-mail firewall at First Tech Credit Union is now putting the brakes on as many as 140,000 incoming suspect messages a month. The MailGate Email Firewall and Secure Messenger system from Tumbleweed Communications Corp. also is providing secure outbound transmission, including encrypting and routing of...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 2005 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey from the Computer Security Institute and the FBI's Computer Intrusion Squad in San Francisco finds that financial institutions spent the least per employee on IT security while state governments spent the most in the past year. The 10th-annual report,...