He is a master of the simplest “hack” of all — impersonation. In recent months, he has pretended to be White House officials like Jared Kushner and Reince Preibus or even Eric Trump. And it worked. He fooled plenty of people who should have known better, including Anthony Scaramucci, former Utah [Keep reading]
While you were busy worrying about health insurance premiums and perhaps Donald Trump’s latest Tweet, the U.S. Senate spat in the face of American consumers this week. In a 50-50 vote that required Vice President Mike Pence to break the tie, the Senate voted to nullify a pro-consumer rule that [Keep reading]
It’s the letter more Americans are dreading this fall: How much will your health insurance premiums go up for next year? The frightening renewal notice. Most consumers will get the bad news on or around Nov. 1. After more than a year of political maneuvering, posturing, name-calling, finger-pointing, misleading, and [Keep reading]
Click here if the embedded video doesn’t work for you.Some days as a journalist, you find yourself bouncing around in a pickup truck with your dog, riding through 20 acres of pumpkins learning about cover crops on a farm that can trace its origins to the American Revolution. Those are [Keep reading]
The folks at Grow asked me to take a look at what the latest actions from the administration will mean for your health care premiums. Not an easy question to answer. Some of what I found is below, but you can read the full story at Grow. Mainly, my concern [Keep reading]
NOTE: I’m doing an ongoing series of stories on elder scams, a “tsunami” of crimes hitting the most vulnerable Americans, according to the FBI’s Debbie Deem. Recently, I wrote about the tragic story of a California teacher found murdered in Jamaica. I also wrote about Deem for CNBC.com recently (Click [Keep reading]
Belgian researcher Mathy Vanhoef announced some rather brilliant research on Monday which demonstrates that nearly all Wi-Fi in use today can be hacked. The tool for scrambling data as it’s transmitted wirelessly between your gadgets and routers, called WPA2, can be tricked into coughing up the secrets needed to unscramble [Keep reading]
This column is dedicated to new Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler and his “deviant thoughts”. Here’s mine for today: Not everything that is good for consumers is good. Facebook and the election? Uber kicked out of London? Google getting an entire staff at a think tank fired? Continuously-shrinking airplane seats? [Keep reading]
Why do these hacks seem never ending? Why don’t more firms require two-factor authentication? What is the latest on the Equifax hack? While I was in Washington D.C. for the hearings on Equifax, Adam Levin and I appeared in-studio at WTOP to talk with host Dimitri Sotis. Meanwhile, here’s more [Keep reading]
I’m as tired of “hold my beer” jokes as you are, but this news seems to beg for one. While Equifax CEO Richard Smith was saying very little about his former firm’s massive hack during a three-hour hearing before Congress yesterday, Yahoo (now, called Oath, and part of Verizon) quietly [Keep reading]
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