Redherring.com - AmEx fights online fraud.
The new Private Payments system from American Express is a security measure to cloak credit card information during online purchases. The company, working with Privada for future e-commerce protections, hopes to thwart credit card theft with a one-time-use credit card number.
New York Times - free registration required Poland Ready to Clear Electronic Signatures.
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish financial institutions joined forces to enable local Internet users to use electronic signatures in e-commerce and e-banking after the appropriate law is approved later this year, the central bank said on Thursday.
Business News from Wired News - Digital Security for Free.
DUBLIN, Ireland -- In a surprise move following Wednesday's release of the patent on the main security algorithm used in digital security products, Baltimore Technologies will offer one of its key developer toolkit products for free from its website.
In the past, the toolkit elements would have cost developers $10,000 to $20,000.
New York Times - free registration required APB Online Finally Bought.
SafetyTips.com purchased APBNews.com for $575,000, two weeks after withdrawing a higher offer for the beleaguered crime news site.
New York Times - free registration required Assessing Linking Liability.
In a largely overlooked portion of a recent decision, a federal judge has indicated that courts can determine the legality of a hyperlink by considering the intent of its creator.
Of course this raises the question of how is the Judge to know what the intent of the linker was.
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