Half of Americans didn’t get a raise last year, according to Bankrate.com. And that’s the good news (more people got raises this year than last year). The bad news: The less you earn, the less likely you were to get a raise. This reality leads to another: the gig economy [Keep reading]
Click to visit Wawa’s information page about the hackIf you used a credit or debit card at a Wawa convenience store or gas station between April 22 and December 12, your payment information has been compromised. The retail giant announced on Thursday that criminals managed to place malicious software on [Keep reading]
A big takeaway from my experience with this reporting: This is the decade we were brainwashed into surveilling ourselves. In just over 10 years we were sold a future of personalization and convenience and paid for it with little pieces of ourselves that we can never get back. — Charlie [Keep reading]
Combine old-fashioned money-mule-job-listing fraud with Zelle fraud and there’s a big new headache that job seekers and bank consumers have to worry about. Ngoc Nguyen says she lost $999 this way recently, and an Indeed.com user was an unwitting accomplice to the crime. So far, Nguyen’s financial institution – Regions [Keep reading]
The third episode of our privacy podcast, No Place to Hide, goes right to a pretty dark place. When they take away our privacy, what are they really taking away? Our humanity. Menny Barzily, CTO of the Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel-Aviv University, offered the most profound analysis. He [Keep reading]
Parents in Tennessee say a hacker sang songs to their children in their bedroom through a Ring camera. A Texas Ring user says she was threatened with extortion through her front doorbell camera. In Florida, another victim told local media that a hacker started screaming racial slurs at a child [Keep reading]
Dan Solove, perhaps the leading legal scholar on privacy, has an amazing collection of magazine covers on his TechPrivacy.com website. One after another, they all lament that “Privacy is Dead.” The stories date from 2015….2010…1994…..1970! He calls this collection “the undying death of privacy.” “I am growing weary of hearing [Keep reading]
Amy Boyer, I sometimes say, was the first person murdered by the Internet. Twenty years ago this fall, she was gunned down in cold blood by stalker Liam Youens. He found Amy by hiring a data broker, and told everyone about that on his website. “It’s actually obscene what you [Keep reading]
I’ve been working on a special project for six months, and I’m thrilled to let you know that it releases on Monday. It’s a 6-episode series on the state of privacy in America, and in the world. Alia Tavakolian and I have been working since this spring, talking to dozens [Keep reading]
Identity theft targeting family members is soaring, as is what I’ll call “desperation fraud” — opening credit accounts with no intention of paying, and little effort to disguise the fraud. These are two very bad signs for the economy, according to a firm that studies ID theft on a wide [Keep reading]
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