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PayPal Inc. urges its customers to "verify" their accounts by linking a checking account or credit card - a process that also makes the accounts more valuable to hackers.

A bug in Android smartphones made by HTC exposes users' personal data to any application that requests it.

When the profits and losses of the debit card unit suffer as regulation clips revenues, the banks increase fees, discouraging debit card usage. Any pretense to customer focus goes out the window.

In hinting that the consumer bureau should look at B of A's $5 debit card fee, Obama has solidified bankers' worst fears about the CFPB.

Word that a banking pool had returned its money to investors prompted our assistant managing editor to take a second look at the state of banking. The answers are discomforting.

All of the bank-bashing I've witnessed in recent months has me reflecting on one of my favorite Buffett lines. I'm talking about Jimmy, not Warren.

Understanding the management of Bank of America is now next to impossible. What makes them want to anger 50 plus million solid retail customers while their entire operation is in damage control? Five million customers from the bank I headed joined this group when B of A acquired it in 1992.

There are 7, 500 banks in this country. Of those, 6,800 have asset sizes of a billion dollars or less. This diversity enables our banking system to support the world's largest and most dynamic economy, and it is what sets us apart from other countries whose banking industries are highly concentrated. Prosperous, American-based global enterprises — which do business with America's largest banks — beget mid-size suppliers that are served by regional banks. Small businesses in this supply chain are in turn nurtured by community banks, which work to make Main Streets across America vibrant.

Microsoft’s Security Essentials is supposed make sure that Windows users stay virus-free when they surf the Web. Last week it took its mission a bit too far, removing a popular Web browser entirely.

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