Restaurant Thievery

Here is a line from CU Times' At Press Time, a daily news update for the credit union community:

The $395 million First Citizens' Federal Credit Union has had to notify members who hold cards issued on roughly 70 card accounts that they will be reissuing their cards. According to a story in local media, the credit union cards were compromised when thieves tapped into local restaurant chains' payment systems.

While only 70 card accounts were compromised, it certainly supports our previous commentary on the problems with credit and debit card security at the retail level.

For the complete update check the CU Times post at: http://www.cutimes.com/section/credit-debit-atm/35293

Here is the original story published by the Cape Cod Times:
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071130/BIZ/711300311/-1/NEWS

Podcast Library

Some of you may know that we have a library section on our website. Our original intent was to use the library for posting educational videos and also for referencing some of our favorite business books and publications. After doing a bit of research, it seems like creating audio podcasts is a better choice than running through the production process for video programming.

In any case, I wanted to test how to link up a podcast using our blog. This post represents our test with the podcast features a bit of commentary on the status of our library - basically a reiteration of what I just posted here. Once we get the logistics down we will begin posting the educational content we have already produced.