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...story of Beatrix Potter, she of Peter Rabbit and dozens of other much loved children's books. When we meet her, she is a superannuated virgin, living with her well-to-do parents, writing about her "friends," the woodland creatures. She claims to talk to them, which may account for some of the twitchiness that occasionally mars Renée Zellweger's performance in the title role. Potter, however, is made of willful stuff. She finds a publisher (Ewan McGregor) for her books, falls in love with him, achieves best-sellerdom and, in this telling of her life, status...
BioPassword's best customers so far are banks and credit unions, which are under federal mandate to adopt stronger authentication measures to protect online customers against identity theft and other fraud. To access account information, online banking generally requires a password with a maximum of 10 character points. Biometric IDs have more than 80 distinct data points...
Indeed, AARP wouldn't be the powerhouse it is today without those services. Royalties alone account for $379 million in revenue. That's more than annual membership dues, which bring in $229 million. In total, 40% of AARP's $878 million in 2004 revenue came from royalties and service fees. AARP increased its revenues last year about 10.3%, to $938 million, and spent about a third of that on getting current members or courting potential new ones...
Consumers know by now they are at risk of identity theft, of "phishing" e-mail attacks and of other scams designed to get them to cough up their account information (and then, too often, the contents of that account). Fake heists show that customers aren't the only weak link in the chain. "We have hacked into every single online banking application that we've tested, except one," says Stickley. So even if you follow all the rules--never respond to an e-mail purporting to be from a bank, shred every piece of paper containing personal information, only return...
DOUBLE-CHECK E-MAIL REQUESTS Stickley sets up a fake e-mail address and credit-union website, then sends out e-mails claiming to be from the credit union's IT manager, asking employees to "test" the new website by entering their own account and password information. They often give Stickley all he needs to empty out those accounts...