Snapchat was the target of the first real hacker data leak of 2014, with data on 4.6 million members taken and posted online. It happened during the holidays; perhaps you missed it. Or perhaps you don’t know what the heck Snapchat is. Now would be a good time to find [Keep reading]
Getting shape can really make your bank account unhealthy. If you are among the millions of New Year’s resolute-rs who think January is the time to finally commit to an exercise plan, and you are considering joining a health club, know this: signing up for a gym membership can be [Keep reading]
Happy New Year! Snapchat is leaking users’ phone numbers online. To prove it, hackers posted 4.6 million of them online last night. What’s Snapchat? Essentially it is a service everyone is using for extra privacy, in which messages (kind of) self-destruct after a few seconds. Snapchat users, such as those [Keep reading]
When 2013 began, I never imagined I’d be setting up my own consumer news service. But the year was full of surprises, opportunities, a successful book launch, and some disappointments. It all cleared the way for this exciting change. As New Year’s approaches, I’m proud to say that 50,000 people [Keep reading]
We’re about to find out how effective a major implementation of encryption really is. Target’s quite tardy admission that it’s lost encrypted PIN codes along with millions of credit card numbers might be one of the largest public tests of encryption were ever seen. Remember, a person with a debit [Keep reading]
Each year at Christmas, I make a set of photo calendars for my family. I began doing this 15 years ago when I moved from New Jersey to Seattle, as a way of bragging about how beautiful my new adopted home was. I was also 3,000 miles away and also [Keep reading]
Brian Krebs connects the dots and spins an amazing tale about a hacker who he things is involved in selling the stolen Target credit cards. And, he says, someone offered him $10,000 not to print it. Using a combination of deep searches, cached versions of websites, and his own archives [Keep reading]
I’m hearing a lot of screaming from the hills about chip-enabled credit card right now: Why Europe has had them for 10 years, and how silly that Americans don’t have them yet. Well, there’s some good reasons why shoppers in the States don’t have chip-and-pin yet. Here’s the most important [Keep reading]
Not so fast, everyone: Boiling water doesn’t help a woman giving birth, and putting a credit freeze on your credit report won’t stop a hacker from buying things with a credit card stolen from Target. Here’s an update on what we know, what you should do, and some ideas about [Keep reading]
How much do you plan to spend on gifts this holiday season? If you’re like the average American, a little less than last year. That certainly doesn’t make you a Scrooge — you are probably spending a lot more than you did at the height of the recession — but it [Keep reading]
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