Lawsuits
Highlight PayPal's Growing Pains
Online payment processor PayPal faces two class-action law suits and user
complaints over customer service and antifraud systems.
Computerworld | Feature Article
| April 1, 2002
PayPal's
Risks and Potential Rewards
In PayPal's 156-page filing for an IPO in February, the company named
several possible liability risks but pointed out many potential benefits
as well.
Computerworld | Feature Article
| April 1, 2002
Market
Pioneer PayPal Must Deal With Disgruntled Users
Online payment processor PayPal is growing at a rapid rate in a market
where few have dared to go, and customers feel they're paying for the
speed of the company's expansion.
Computerworld | Feature Article
| April 1, 2002
Security
Ambassadors
At American Family Mutual Insurance, information security advisers act
as liasons between business units and IT, helping each understand the
other's needs when setting up security systems.
Computerworld | Feature Article
| October 1, 2001
Accepting
credit cards over the Web can be a costly business
Online merchants say that the credit card authorization system is stacked
against them and rife with fraud.
Computerworld | Feature Article
| August 3, 2001
E-Merchant
Beware
The rate of credit card fraud over the Internet is three times higher
than the rate for all credit card transactions. Merchants need to protect
themselves or they can be sunk by credit card criminals.
Computerworld | Opinion Column
| June 18, 2001
Trading
Nets Give Exchanges A Run for Their Money
It's a classic case of cutting out the middlemen: The new wave of electronic
communications networks replaced the market makers on stock-trading floors
with subsecond online transactions - and took a chunk of business from
the traditional stock exchanges. But now the New York Stock Exchange and
Nasdaq are ...
Computerworld
| Feature Article | December 18, 2000
Got
Cyber Insurance?
Few companies seem to know that they can insure themselves against Web
shenanigans. Part of the problem is that insurers themselves are just
waking up to technology's impact on business liability. Here's how to
better protect your firm.
Computerworld
| Feature Article | August 21, 2000
Honor
thy customers' cards
Denial of service attacks have been getting a lot of attention lately.
But meantime, you need to be protecting your systems from credit card
theft. Contributing Editor Deborah Radcliff reports on some tough lessons
learned.
Computerworld
| Feature Article | April 10, 2000
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