There are times when Americans have been able to show an honorable amount of restraint in their communications. World War II and its “Loose Lips might Sink Ships” campaign, for example, when folks bit their tongues and said nothing about where family members might be when fighting in Europe or [Keep reading]
A simple, decade-old hacker trick likely led to the hacking of critical Hillary Clinton staff members. If John Podesta can fall for it, with the Presidential election at stake, so can you. So listen up. I know I sound like a broken record when I warn people to think before they click, [Keep reading]
It’s much easier to steal $1 million from one person than $1 from a million people, so naturally that’s where identity thieves have taken their “industry.” Small-dollar credit card fraud is old, tricking corporations into wiring millions of dollars overseas is in. (This story first appeared on Credit.com. Read it [Keep reading]
When Sam Largent opened his second bar in the Seattle area, he thought he’d take a bold risk: No cash allowed. Well, no physical currency, anyway. All customers must pay with plastic. Debit and credit only; no greenbacks welcome. “Dealing with cash brings a lot of issues,” says Largent. Like [Keep reading]
Kristin Kalning called Wells Fargo bank with a simple issue last week — she wanted to change the mailing address on a small, decades-old IRA account. Instead, she was peppered with what she felt were overly aggressive questions about her personal financial situation, and told she couldn’t do anything with [Keep reading]
It reads like a typical Internet hoax that catches viral fire: “Stand with me at Standing Rock,” the post begins. “The Morton County Sheriff’s Department has been using Facebook check-ins to find out who is at Standing Rock in order to target them in attempts to disrupt the prayer camps.” [Keep reading]
The FCC today ruled that when it comes to your personal information, Internet service providers are more like telephone companies and less like websites — and so it has limited ISPs ability to make money by digitally stalking you and selling that data. The ruling represents a rare win for [Keep reading]
With the housing market steaming ahead like the housing bubble never happened, it’s easy to forget that about 7 million Americans lost their home during the recession. And I think it’s easy to forget what I believe was the biggest failure of the Obama administration. While banks got bailouts, homeowners [Keep reading]
It’s easy to blame dumb consumers using bad passwords when a large-scale Internet attack occurs, and that’s what happened on Friday when sites like Reddit and Twitter became unavailable during an Internet of Things-driven denial of service attack. But a developing melodrama has U.S. security firms saying passwords were hard-coded into the gadgets [Keep reading]
An army of infected gadgets — like nanny cameras — overwhelmed a critical Internet service provider on Friday, knocking many large Internet companies offline. The firm at the middle of the attack, New Hampshire-based Dyn, said late Friday that it is enduring a third wave of digital onslaught. Dyn said late [Keep reading]
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