John Maynard Keynes is one of the most influential and controversial figures of the 20th Century, and he impacts your day to day life more than you know. After all, people who are busy trying to raise children, start a career, bolster retirement savings, care for aging parents, etc., have [Keep reading]
Today, Target announced that the victim total from its hacking incident has jumped dramatically. There were 40 million victims whose credit card numbers were compromised. Now, we learn that there’s another list of 70 million victims — hackers made away with other personal information about them, including e-mail and mailing [Keep reading]
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With all the screaming about the NSA hacking into our lives, Americans have kind of missed the point. We’ve voluntarily given our lives to private companies for years. Government agents don’t have to hack us. They can simply ask any of these companies for everything they have. The Supreme Court [Keep reading]
The IRS tries very hard to send out tax refunds quickly, so it sometimes sends them to the wrong person. Criminals have figured this out, and increasingly try to jump between you and your tax refund. They do this by filing a tax return before you do. Your solution: File [Keep reading]
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]
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