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Month: July 2024

Cybercrime / Privacy

Family moves into rental, finds out ‘landlord’ doesn’t actually own it. Thanks to smart locks

July 29, 2024 Bob Sullivan 0

Imagine moving hundreds of miles away to a new rental home, packing up your whole life …  the kids, the pets. Signing a lease, paying a deposit, unpacking everything, and setting up your new home. And then finding out that you are trespassing, and you must leave in three days. [Keep reading]

Cybercrime / Privacy

Delta’s continuing Crowdstrike issue reveals; fragile tech, and no Plan B, is a recipe for disaster

July 23, 2024 Bob Sullivan 0

There have been so many hot takes about the Crowdstrike disaster that I don’t feel any need to add mine.  But when you see what Delta Airlines is *still* doing to passengers some five days after this one piece of bad code ate the Internet, you can’t blame Crowdstrike any [Keep reading]

Gotchas / Consumer

Enough with the spam texts already; and a scam roundup

July 9, 2024 Bob Sullivan 0

The above messages are all fake; they all landed on my smartphone in the past couple of days. You’ve probably seen them, or texts just like them.  If they feel relentless, that’s because they are.  According to Robokiller.com, Americans received 19 billion fake texts in June.  Just in June! That’s [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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