It’s my birthday today, and while that might sound like a desperate plea for attention…it is. This week, we interviewed an adult daughter and son whose father took his own life after becoming embroiled in a crypto/romance scam. “When he had to accept that this is a world where this [Keep reading]
Everyone should be concerned about deepfakes and voice cloning; what’s difficult is deciding how concerned to be. When it comes to the use of AI in crime, I think we have a 5-alarm fire on our hands. I just came back from a week of talks at the University of [Keep reading]
Imagine owning a piece of land — your childhood backyard, in fact — and finding out that a construction company had built a brand new home on it without permission? Then, imagine moving your family across the country into a new rental home, moving in, living there for a while, [Keep reading]
HOBOKEN, N.J. — They say you can die from a broken heart — I’m sure that’s true — and you can really feel that in a place like Hoboken, N.J. on Sept. 11. A quick ferry or train ride from Wall Street, Hoboken is believed to have lost the most [Keep reading]
To paraphrase a long-ago election campaign slogan, “It’s the housing, stupid.” America’s housing market is desperately out of whack. How out of whack? Nearly one in 10 homes in America are now — on paper, anyway — worth $1 million. Congrats, all you millionaires! To rob from rock band Barenaked [Keep reading]
TikTok cannot use federal law “to permit casual indifference to the death of a ten-year-old girl,” a federal judge wrote this week. And with that, an appeals court has opened a Pandora’s box that might clear the way for Big Tech accountability. Silicon Valley companies have become rich and powerful [Keep reading]
Your Social Security number was almost certainly stolen by a hacker. And offered for sale in the Internet’s underground. Again. Don’t be alarmed; just be careful. Thanks to a class-action lawsuit made public earlier this week, we know that a company you’ve never heard of with the cryptic (and now [Keep reading]
You might think your humble social media account would be of no use to multinational crime gangs, but you’d be wrong. Computer criminals have dozens of ways to turn hijacked Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter accounts into cash…or worse. You’d be stunned how quickly friend-of-friend attacks escalate into massive crime [Keep reading]
Imagine moving hundreds of miles away to a new rental home, packing up your whole life … the kids, the pets. Signing a lease, paying a deposit, unpacking everything, and setting up your new home. And then finding out that you are trespassing, and you must leave in three days. [Keep reading]
There have been so many hot takes about the Crowdstrike disaster that I don’t feel any need to add mine. But when you see what Delta Airlines is *still* doing to passengers some five days after this one piece of bad code ate the Internet, you can’t blame Crowdstrike any [Keep reading]
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