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]
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. It’s not clear [Keep reading]
I’m constantly amazed at the unfair contracts consumers are forced to sign during simple transactions with large corporations. Lawyers load up standard-form contracts with one-sided, take-it-or-leave-it terms, often called “contracts of adhesion.” I’m in a crowd that believes one-sided contracts where there’s unequal bargaining power aren’t contracts at all, and [Keep reading]
Many Americans still find themselves visiting a bank branch at least once in a while — to deposit a large check, for example. When big bucks are involved, dealing with a human being can be a nice security blanket. But that may be about to change. Banks are closing local branches at [Keep reading]
Using social networks and sharing personal information online can dramatically increase your risk for fraud, a new study has found. It makes sense that consumers who disclose the most about themselves online are at greater risk of becoming fraud victims. But the study claims their increased risk is probably more [Keep reading]
Navy Federal Credit Union threatened to contact soliders’ commanding officers and cut off access to ATMs as part of a pattern of illegal debt collection practices, federal regulators said Tuesday. The credit union, which is the nation’s largest, grants membership only to current and former U.S. military servicemembers, civilians working [Keep reading]
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