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EXCLUSIVE: Hackers continue stealing from Starbucks app users, nearly a year later; linked credit, debit cards at risk

February 16, 2016 Bob Sullivan 13

Hackers are still stealing money from Starbucks customers using a simple attack on the coffee giants’ app users, BobSullivan.net has learned. Nearly a year after my initial story exposed widespread attacks on app users’ bank accounts, the security problems plaguing Starbucks’ auto-reload and linked bank account features persist. Starbucks did [Keep reading]

New chip credit cards lead to …. worse fraud?

February 3, 2016 Bob Sullivan 1

U.S. consumers have finally been liberated from archaic technology that used to protect them and their credit cards from identity theft. Millions of Americans now have chip-enabled credit cards. And now the results of this sweeping change are in. Just as many consumers were hit by ID theft last year [Keep reading]

Verizon grounds JetBlue — how could that happen? Another plan B gone bad

January 14, 2016 Bob Sullivan 0

Verizon managed to ground an airline on Thursday. But it’s important to ask: Who’s really to blame? Discount airliner JetBlue appears to have cut some serious corners with its disaster recovery planning. The airline suffered nationwide delays on Thursday when many of its computer systems went down, preventing fliers from [Keep reading]

‘How are you ****ing us?’ and other critical lessons from The Big Short; my new job with Acorns / Grow

January 13, 2016 Bob Sullivan 1

I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined a great new personal finance site called Grow as a contributor. Led by Jennifer Barrett, who until recently was editing my CNBC.com stories, Grow is a part of the Acorns app. Acorns is one of the clever new finance startups generally called “FinTech.” If [Keep reading]

10 absolutely critical lessons from the Cardinals-Astros hack that everyone should learn

January 11, 2016 Bob Sullivan 0

By now you’ve probably heard the sexy story of one major league baseball team hacking another in a perhaps the most famous case of corporate espionage to date. It’s the most famous because it involves the Houston Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals, but it’s really a trivial case in [Keep reading]

Predictions for 2016: Job-killing robots, crashing drones, mobile pay and Internet of Things chaos

January 1, 2016 Bob Sullivan 0

Will 2016 be the year people really start buying things with their phones? The year a hacker finally turns the lights off? Or a self-driving car causes an accident? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe some of these things won’t happen until January 2017 — the 12-month time horizon is pretty arbitrary — but these [Keep reading]

2015, the year things got real: Health data and security clearance dossiers were the big ‘Target’

December 30, 2015 Bob Sullivan 0

Every year at about this time, technology reporters typically recount the big computer crimes from the past 12 months and proclaim “The Year of the Hacker” or some such moniker. This year, it fits. Two years ago, the Target hack ushered in a new era of credit card theft awareness and ultimately helped inspire a [Keep reading]

Watch out for the Microsoft Windows ‘Blue Screen of Update’

December 28, 2015 Bob Sullivan 1

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’ve noticed a bit more anger from cashiers this season, blame the (credit card) chips

December 24, 2015 Bob Sullivan 3

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]

Christmas Eve means e-gift cards, and that’s OK (but watch your spam folder)

December 24, 2015 Bob Sullivan 0

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]

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