What is this? Ransomware? A new Cryptolocker? A less scary blue screen of death? Nope. This is a Microsoft Update. The latest stupid Microsoft trick hit me today — it’s been making the rounds for the past several weeks, and it’s likely to hit you, too. So I’m writing up [Keep reading]
If you think using your new chip credit card is annoying, imagine what it’s like on the other side of the cash register. Well, you don’t have to imagine, because store clerk Dawn is going to tell you. As U.S. consumers and merchants get used to the new chip-enabled EMV credit and debit [Keep reading]
It’s Christmas Eve, and unless you are out shopping, you have only one choice left for a last-minute gift — an email gift card. E-gifting is a new tradition that’s growing every year, and once again, Christmas Eve is expected to be the busiest day of the year for digital gift [Keep reading]
AHHHH!!! It’s that time of year again when you are probably panicking over that one person who haven’t quite figured out yet. Figured out what gift to buy, I mean. Well, I’m here to the rescue, thanks to my brilliant friend Katie Freeman (she’s the one hugging the books. And [Keep reading]
Elle Adkins has lived in Oklahoma City all her adult life, so she has a different perspective on the once-sleepy, dusty capital city that’s become a boomtown. “It used to be dreadful, and now we have all this new and exciting stuff,” she said. Credit.com recently wrote about the top 10 most affordable [Keep reading]
ARCHIVE, MAY 31, 2013 — Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there will be sun, Little Orphan Annie sang. Recent neuroeconomics research suggests she was onto something. The key to saving money for the future might not be self-discipline, but rather the ability to imagine that tomorrow, indeed, is coming. [Keep reading]
Consumers around the world trust data storage company Seagate to keep their information safe, but the firm this week apparently allowed one of its website security certificates to lapse. The expiration means some Seagate backup functions currently don’t work. It also calls into question the firm’s business practices, according to [Keep reading]
If you make money charging people for TV access, here’s the latest set of scary numbers. A new Pew Research Center report has found that one out of five young adults between 18 and 29 say they have “severed the ties they once had with cable or satellite service.” They’ve [Keep reading]
A short-term, high-cost lender that tried to collect debts by in-person visits at borrowers’ homes and workplaces has ceased dealing in payday loans, and about 200,000 consumers will get refunds or debt collection relief, federal regulators said Wednesday. Austin-based EZCORP is accused of potentially revealing details about consumers’ debts to third parties during [Keep reading]
As one of the first journalists to write about the identity theft phenomenon more than a decade ago, people often ask me if I think LifeLock is worth it. I’ve never been a fan of the company, which began its uneasy existence with a brazen advertising campaign that included plastering the founder’s [Keep reading]
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