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BSA Offers Up to $1 Million to Bust Software Pirates

When you were a kid, you may have heard that nobody likes a tattletale. That isn’t true. BSA The Software Alliance loves tattletales. If you...

Marc Weber Tobias and Adam Levin on Identity Theft

Security experts Marc Weber Tobias and Adam Levin discussed the recent trends in identity theft, and the threat it poses to consumers. To read...

(Video) Identity Theft: The Latest Ways to Protect Yourself

Adam Levin spoke with MoneyTalksNews.com about the three certainties in life: death, taxes, and data breaches leading to identity theft. In 2013 alone, 290,000...

The New Grave Robbers: Identity Thieves

Take your driver’s license out of your wallet. Flip it over. Now look carefully at the back of it. There’s no box to check...

The Top States for Identity Theft

Consumers filed nearly 2.6 million complaints with the Federal Trade Commission and other consumer groups in 2014, and identity theft was the most common...

5 Myths About Women & Money

With only 23% of Certified Financial Planners being women, you might think the fairer sex isn’t all that interested in money matters. You’d be wrong. The idea...
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Healthcare, banking companies issue easily spoofed emails

Emails purportedly sent by health insurance companies and large banks are more likely to be fraudulent than those claiming to be from social media...

Do Genetics Influence Your Credit Score?

There is the standard list of factors that influence your credit score: payment history, outstanding balances, the types of credit that you use and...

(Video) Clinton: There was no classified info in my e-mails

Adam Levin spoke with Liz Claman on Countdown to the Closing Bell on Fox Business about the security issues surrounding Former Secretary of State Hillary...

Should the Secret Service Protect Candidates Online?

The Democratic and Republican gristmills got to work last week on Hillary Clinton’s “homebrew” email, and the ensuing firestorm underscored an alarming lack of...
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UAE Bank Issues Scented Credit Card

A bank in the Middle East released a scented credit card in January, targeting women with this financial product that doubles as a medium...

The Solution to Tax Identity Theft: Slower Refunds

The Government Accountability Office estimates that $5.8 billion was lost to identity thieves filing fraudulent tax returns in 2013 and that there may have...
Privacy and security

Cloud apps routinely expose sensitive data

An alarming number of cloud-based apps used by enterprise employees don’t encrypt data at rest or require two-factor authentication. And an astounding number of employees...
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Viral Gmail, YouTube alerts spreading via email

I've received a couple of troubling emails recently that made their way into my inbox. They were well-drafted attacks designed to convince me that...
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What We Could Have Done With the $5.8 Billion the Government...

Imagine you were President, or Speaker of the House, and one day you woke up and discovered that you had an extra $5.8 billion...

3 Ways to Protect Your Kids From ID Theft After Data...

When a widespread data breach happens, children are often the most at risk for identity theft. Their clean credit histories make them targets for...

Anthem breach shows need for wider encryption of sensitive data

Media reports concerning the Anthem breach have indicated that the compromised personal information wasn’t encrypted. Encryption – strong, modern algorithms properly implemented with tight...

Faked PayPal sites hard to distinguish from the real thing

Faked PayPal email notifications directing recipients to malicious websites aren’t new. But cybercriminals are getting a lot better at executing them. That’s what the discovery...

Was This Billion-Dollar Bank Heist Preventable?

A funny thing happened on the way to the ATM (and depending on who you believe, may still be happening). Scratch that. For the...

Skin implants arrive as replacement for passwords

CANCUN — It was a moment out of science fiction. All eyes were on Kaspersky Lab researcher Povel Torudd as he sat center stage...