3V Transaction Services, the guys behind the 3V vouchers have launched their pay-as-you-go Visa voucher product in Canada. They have also revealed their plans to offer the 3V pay-as-you-go Visa voucher in European countries through a partnership with Luxembourg Banque Ivik.

Twitter founder Jack Doresy has a new startup project - the Square iPhone Payment System. The system involves an iPhone app and an associated dongle that enables an iPhone or iPod touch to becine a mini credit card reader.

IRISS announce competition details of their Cyber Security Challenge - HackEire. This competition will take place as part of the 2009 IRISS Conference on Cybercrime.

An Apache web server misconfiguration exposes details of all connections and state information for the majority Twitter web servers. Twitter were quick to respond and block all access to the information. No long term harm done just a little embarrassment for Twitter.

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Realex Payments win new business and as a result are hiring to fill 15 new open positions. This includes development, sysadmin, business and support roles.

Online Payments company Paypal announce that they are creating 100 new jobs in Dublin. The jobs are in the area area of customer service and operations. No development or technical roles.

WorldNet TPS announce NetStart aimed at start up merchants. The package has no setup fees and costs €30 per month. Charges don't start until your web site has completed sales.

Irish Reporting and Information Security Service (IRISS) announce its first annual conference to be held on 19th of November 2009 in Dublin. In parallel to speaking sessions there will be Ireland's first Cyber Security Challenge - HackEire. 10 teams will complete against each other in a controlled environment to exploit weaknesses in a number of systems.

Irish startup Lucey Technology launch a cloud-computing service aimed at helping businesses improve their online customer engagement. The service includes an online payments offering that offers all businesses the opportunity to process credit card transactions at 1.24%.

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