Adam Levin

If you still believe identity theft is a marketing gimmick, it's time to take a look at the Federal Trade Commission report released this week. Identity theft is once again the top complaint in...

This spring, the term "cyber war" turns 20. In his seminal 1993 paper "Cyberwar is Coming!" master military strategist John Arquilla envisioned an entirely new kind of battle. That vision was articulated again, but as...

Right now more than 5 million Americans receive unemployment benefits. And right now, in many states a big chunk of those unemployment benefits are going straight to the bottom line profits of the nation's...

We're coming up on three years since Mark Zuckerberg famously announced, "The age of privacy is over." Some of us, however, still value our privacy. The nonstop Facebook information grabs of late, coupled with...

If you think of your smartphone as just a phone, rather than a very powerful mini-computer that happens to make phone calls, you may be cruising for a world of pain. That's because the amount...

I hate to say it, because I wasn't a fan, but this never would have happened under George W. Bush. There was a president who got what he wanted. "You don't like this war?...

Last week offered a very good snapshot of the state of things in the wake of mortgage crisis. On the one hand, there was news of a woefully inadequate $8.5 billion settlement as "remedy"...

Now that the interview has aired and Lance Armstrong is the poster boy for the dangers of running (or bicycling) from the truth, you knew it was only a matter of time before I...

We live in uncertain times. Uncertainty spooks financial markets and keeps a lid on lending. It gives millions of businesses a legitimate argument to sit on the sidelines hoarding trillions of dollars that could...

A funny thing happened on my way from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. this week, I found myself on a flight without Wi-Fi. The prospect of being unplugged for more than four hours on...