NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - CU Village.com has introduced a new version of its flagship Content Management System (CMS) that allows clients to easily update the information that appears throughout its site. All new sites launched by CU Village.com, beginning with the first quarter of 2007, have utilized the updated CMS.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - Continental FCU here just moved away from the "Microsoft monopoly" and into the 21st century of electronic communications with an intranet and web community platform that allows employees coast to coast to share files, schedule meetings and post updates to a homepage-all at a bargain-basement cost.

AKRON, Ohio - A credit union here is going above and beyond the "passive" multi-factor authentication tools common to most credit union Internet banking sites, asking members to identify a series of human faces as part of a cognometric approach to online authentication.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Credit unions are reinventing the way they use the web with "social media": online technologies such as podcasts, blogs, vlogs, wikis and message boards where users share opinions-and advertise.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Employees have a "take this job and love it" attitude at Pacific Service Credit Union here, in part because technology makes their work easier.

The following are members of Credit Union Journal's Technology Panel.

CUISPA Calls For Entries

Looking at the remainder of our 2007 budget, we need to cut our expenses. Can you suggest ways we can use technology to find cost savings, including within IT itself?

SDMCU Chooses TFactor

AKRON, Ohio - Some members got mad when Buckeye State CU here started asking them to authenticate themselves online using the Passfaces three-step, face-recognition process (see related story).

NEW YORK - CashEdge Inc. has been awarded a patent for 'Multiple Trust Modes for Handling Data,' technology that allows credit union and bank customers to the degree of how their user information is stored.

CHATWORTH, Calif. - Personal FinanceWorks -the hybrid between Quicken personal finance software and online banking and the biggest news in years in online banking platforms-could turn any armchair Internet banking user into something of a financial savant.

CUPERTINO, Calif. - According to information technology giants Symantec and Intel, "virtualization" technology will play a large role in the financial services sector this year.

PHOENIX - As fewer people write checks in favor of moving money through the ACH network or paying with plastic, some credit unions continue to question the industry's investment in bringing Check 21 technologies in-house to create, exchange and clear check images.

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. - Members rate the service at Tinker FCU here as "outstanding"-in part because management sees "exactly what lobby employees are doing at any time" at each of 17 branches.

MURRIETA, Calif. - In a sometimes messy race for credit unions to acquire or be acquired, where the winners sometimes vie to assimilate in 30 days, a service provider here is seizing a newfound opportunity to make the technology side of mergers neat and pat.

SIDNEY, N.Y. - Dave Rutenber has about 40 projects in the works at the information systems (IS) and network systems departments at Sidney FCU here, and his workload won't be getting lighter any time soon.

IntegraSys Adds 13 Clients

Editor's note: This is the second part of a BankInfoSecurity.com interview with Dr. Markus Jakobsson, a professor at Indiana University who is conducting research on phishing, and was originally conducted by Linda McGleeson, editor of BankInfoSecurity.com.

LISBON, Maine - Just three months ago, Lisbon Community FCU offered a scant array of mortgage products. The small CU's hands were tied from selling mortgage loans to the secondary market and accepting simplified applications from members over the Internet. Pre-approvals weren't possible and mortgage rates weren't attractive. It took an expert to pick apart its rate structures.