News

NEW: "Credit Card Processing and the New Security Requirements"
- Article in MC Press by Ira Chandler...
NEW: from 'Network World' - "Retailers fail to pass security test"
- Learn what is coming from the Payment Card Industry, as adoption of the security standards has lagged...
NEW: from 'The Four Hundred' - "Readers React to Project Prometheus System i Effort"
- Quotes Ira Chandler's "System i, HA!" from 'Name withheld' - click here, NOW!
Send the link to all your IBM contacts:   http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh062606-story03.html NEW: from 'News Wire Daily' -
- Comments from Curbstone's Ira Chandler on the AS/400 community!
Send the link to all your IBM contacts:   http://curbstone.com/nwd_2006-06-29.htm#ira NEW: from 'The Four Hundred' - "Happy 18th Birthday, AS/400; Time to Leave the Nest"
- BRILLIANT analysis of our beloved platform, by Timothy Prickett Morgan - click here, NOW!
Send the link to all your IBM contacts:   http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh061906-story01.html Security - Don't trust that PC...

ATW-investigated Credit Card Compromises: 2005 AmbironTrustWave has performed numerous forensic investigations in the last several years, and in 2005 alone AmbironTrustWave performed more than 60 investigations into suspected credit card compromises. Based on AmbironTrustWave's findings, PC-based POS systems experienced the largest percentage of compromises in 2005. (Note: AmbironTrustWave is Curbstone's security auditor.) http://atwcorp.com

Security -Hotels.com Customer Info May Be at Risk
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060604/D8I1BRMG0.html
Business - Info on Credit Cards from Visa USA:
          Payment Statistics by card brand...
          Consumer Expenditures and Card Type Market Share...
          TREND - Overall Fraud rate declines...
          353 Million Credit/Debit Cards in circulation...
NEW: IBM-sponsored Case Study:
"Curbstone shaves development time, achieves security standards..." ... [PDF version]
NEW: Curbstone article, sockets & serial communications, MC Showcase:
"Real-Time, High-Speed Connections Between iSeries and Dissimilar Systems" ...

Business - "Backshoring" - not OFFshoring! Good InfoWorld article...
Security - EXCELLENT BOOK: "Expert's Guide to OS/400 Security" by IBM's Woodbury and Botz...
Release - Curbstone Card™ Version 2.1 announced...
Security - Curbstone Card Visa PCI CISP/PABP validated...
Redundancy - Linksys - new FAILOVER Router for under $200...
Space -

US Space Camp (http://www.spacecamp.com) uses our AS/400-to-the-Web product, FreeStyle-400, to drive their camp reservations. The Huntsville Space & Rocket Center has a great project in need of your support, the preservation of the last unprotected Saturn V rocket. You believe technology is important. So do we. Please join us to help save this treasure of technology...   Click here!

Award - Curbstone Card wins Search400.com Silver "Products of the Year"...
Humor - Programming humor from 1993, "Shoot yourself..."
Facts - Electronic Payments now Exceed Checks!
Facts - GOOGLE Search Technology EXPOSED!
Amazing - Cornell's self-replicating Robot Video - amazing! (or visit the site and click a picture)