Some secrets are more valuable than others. And some secrets are more valuable TO others. In perhaps the most predictable extortion hack ever, cheating website Ashley Madison has confirmed to Brian Krebs that some of its data has been stolen. It now appears that tens of millions of people are at [Keep reading]
One of the easiest ways to save money, and avoid debt, is to buy used cars instead of new. But once you decide that used is for you, there’s a second way to potentially save thousands of dollars — buy privately instead of from a dealer. There are plenty of [Keep reading]
Do student loans help students or colleges? A new paper published by the New York Federal Reserve makes a clear, and depressing assertion: Federal student loans and grants are often simply gobbled up by schools through tuition inflation, leaving the students no better off. More dollars chasing the fewer goods [Keep reading]
Making environmentally-friendly consumer choices is hard. Really, really hard. It’s great and even inspiring that people think as hard as they do about the planet, even when the individual choices they make might not be as beneficial as they believe. (Yes, this story will talk about plastic grocery bag taxes, [Keep reading]
Half of all smartphone owners check their phones a few times per hour or even more, and most keep their phones by their side all day, every day….yet most think they look at their phones less than their friends. In the latest “everyone can’t be better-than-average looking” finding, a new Gallup [Keep reading]
The latest techno-sensation is about a camera with, quite literally, otherwordly capabilities. The newly released Nikon P900 is a point-and-shoot that might as well be a telescope. The first consumers to get their hands on the thing are posting jaw-dropping videos of the camera zooming in on the Moon — [Keep reading]
JUNE 1, 2012: “Your First Amendment rights can be terminated,” yells the Chicago police officer, caught on video right before arresting two journalists outside a Chicago hospital. One, an NBC News photographer, was led away in handcuffs essentially for taking pictures in a public place.* He was released only minutes later, [Keep reading]
JPMorgan Chase will pay $166 million to settle charges that it engaged in illegal debt collection activities for years, and must adhere to strict new debt collection rules, state and federal authorities announced Wednesday. The bank will also refund at least $50 million to consumers and agree to permanently end [Keep reading]
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Cybercriminals have stolen a staggering amount of information from government computers, a federal agency revealed Thursday. The total number of victims and the type of information gathered, taken together, make the hack historic. While researching an attack that saw the compromise of 4.5 million federal workers’ data, the Office of Personal [Keep reading]
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