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Financial Privacy Notice: Does it cover web sites? What about "cookies"?
03/05/2001
The more I read about the annual Financial Privacy Notice the more confused I get! If my bank has a Web site, does my initial and annual privacy notice also have to contain info on (i.e.) "cookies"?
We use a virus checker. What else can we do?
03/05/2001
Our virus software is updated regularly, yet it did not catch the latest virus, the Anna Kournikova one. Are we doing something wrong or are there other precautions we should be taking?
Detecting Counterfeits: Money Counters and Special Pens
03/05/2001
I have heard that there is available a money counter that can detect counterfeit bills or some type of ink pen that can be used to determine is the bill is fake. Do you have any information regarding these items?
Keeping A Good Hardware And Software Inventory
03/05/2001
Do you have any suggestions for keeping a good inventory of hardware and software? We have a lot of "Frankenstein" machines that have had so much stuff changed out on them (motherboard, memory chips, video card, sound card) that they are almost unrecognizable from the original specs, yet when it's time to figure out if a particular new piece of software will run on them, we need to know the current configuration. I'm hoping there's an easy way to do this.
Customer Selected Passwords: Are We Liable?
03/05/2001
Our customers select their own passwords in order to access their confidential information and transact business on our Web site. Do we have any liability if an unauthorized party obtains the password from our customer without our customer's consent? What if a hacker got into our system or our customer's?