Anyone who’s read oddly positive online reviews or happened on Twitter users with suspiciously large followings knows that the Internet is full of fakes. Bogus followers or fake reviews aren’t just annoying — they call into question the very notion of crowdsourcing, one of the Internet’s most valuable tools. Researchers [Keep reading]
Yahoo says 500 million user accounts have been compromised, and they are telling users to change their passwords. That’s good advice, and below you’ll find better advice from security firm Sophos. But first: For the next several days, or even weeks, beware emails that appear to come from Yahoo. Now will be [Keep reading]
It’s not the big one, but it’s close. Yahoo confirmed on Wednesday long-suspected reports that a hacker had accessed millions of customer passwords. The number, however, is a bit shocking even to a reporter who’s been writing this same story for the past 10 years. Five Hundred Million. For many [Keep reading]
Elizabeth Warren rightly eviscerated Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf at today’s hearing on that bank’s wide-ranging scandal. She connected the dots neatly, showing that Stumpf made perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in salary and stock while presiding over a crime involving two million fake consumer accounts. She then made the [Keep reading]
America is being ripped apart right now by one video after another showing unarmed African Americans killed by police. The videos often turn into Rorschach Tests, with viewers seeing what they want to see; taken as a package, however, the depth of the problem is both obvious and undeniable. Thank goodness we [Keep reading]
The alleged NYC-area bomber and his family were engaged in a 7-year long court battle with city officials over late-night hours and accusations of ethnic prejudice at the restaurant they ran in Elizabeth N.J., and the father of the family declared bankruptcy in 2005, my review of extensive federal court records has found. [Keep reading]
In another sign that the housing market is beginning to resemble its pre-recession heyday, house flipping is back in style with the number Fix and Flip Loans being provided increasing massively. Getting into property development can be intimidating – if you wish to get into the business, then check out [Keep reading]
You’re busy, so I’ll say this fast and loud: DON’T OPEN UNEXPECTED ZIP FILES THAT ARRIVE AS EMAIL ATTACHMENTS. Suddenly, there’s a lot of them around. That advice is nearly as old as email, but as they say, everything old is new again. And the Internet is newly awash in [Keep reading]
Q: When is the only time in life that you can’t wait to get older? A: When you’ve used up all your cell phone data for the month and can’t wait for a new month to arrive. I exceeded my monthly cell phone data last month, I believe for the [Keep reading]
DirecTV has wasted a lot of my time this week, and it tried to take a lot of my money, too. I’ll fill you in on the details below, but you already know the story. I canceled service. I was told my bill was paid. Months later I was hit [Keep reading]
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