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Topics covered will be the basic dos and don'ts of finance for the first-year of college, how to establish credit, and how to avoid the pitfalls of credit card debt. Poetry open mic night Poetry open mic night, co-sponsored by the Harriotte B. Smith Library and open to all poets and poet hopefuls, will meet at Jan. 31 at 6:30 p.m. at the Main Branch. Richlands open house The Onslow County Public Library will host a special open house with coffee and door prizes Feb. 2 at 10 a.m. at the Richlands Branch. Book discussion series The Swansboro Friends of the Library is offering the Let's Talk About It "Not for Children Only" book discussion series, sponsored in part by the North Carolina Humanities Council in conjunction with the State Library Center for the Book. The group will meet every other Thursday through March 6 at the Swansboro Branch.
MasterCard scandal: More details emerge
More details emerged on Monday about the cyber break-in at a payment processing company that exposed more than 40 million credit card accounts to fraud. The data security breach, possibly the largest to date, happened because intruders were able to exploit software security vulnerabilities to install a rogue program on the network of CardSystems Solutions, a MasterCard International spokeswoman said. The program captured credit card data, she said. The malicious code was discovered after a probe into the security of CardSystems' network. That investigation, by security experts from Cybertrust, was triggered by a MasterCard inquiry into atypical reports of fraud by several banks. The trail led to CardSystems, said the spokeswoman. The probe also found that the Atlanta-based payment processor did not meet MasterCard's security regulations.
Embattled Karzai Assesses Corruption, Taliban, U.S. Policy
Do you think Musharraf will do something about it, send forces into the problematic border areas? A. We have to end extremism. We have to end support for extremism in the region. Unless we do that, the picture is one of doom and gloom, for Pakistan, and as a consequence for Afghanistan. Q. When I interviewed former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in December, she said to me, "I feel they are going to come knocking at my door one night." A. Unfortunately, her death, the way it happened, proves her point. That's the irony. That's the sad thing about her death. She predicted something, and she proved right in that prediction. So it must be listened to. We cannot use extremism as a tool for any purpose. It will hurt us eventually, as it has begun to hurt Pakistan.
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