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Month: April 2020

Cybercrime / Privacy

As Zoom use explodes, so do Zoom problems. Here’s my security checklist

April 2, 2020 Bob Sullivan 0

Zoom is the hit software product of the coronavirus, and it’s easy to see why. We all need to connect right now, and Zoom is really easy to use. That’s also the problem. Whenever a technology is easy to use, it’s often easy to exploit. And Zoom is finding that [Keep reading]

Gotchas / Consumer

We got your back, CFPB seems to say to credit bureaus; consumer group cries foul as late bills pile up

April 1, 2020 Bob Sullivan 2

Consumers impacted by the coronavirus — virtually everyone in America at this point — might have trouble paying their bills this month. What will that do to their credit reports? Unfortunately, trouble lies ahead, and neither Congress nor the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seem ready to stop it. I wrote [Keep reading]

Gotchas / Consumer

OK, we’re stuck until June. What can you do with 60 days? A lot. Take the two-month challenge

April 1, 2020 Bob Sullivan 3

“Do you realize this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to stay home and practice all day?” That’s the message a musician friend posted today, and it stopped me in my tracks. June.  I think we are all staring June in the face right now. The reality is, if [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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