How to Find and Close Your Old Online Accounts

I remember my first online accounts. I just wish I could find them. When I was a teenager, there was some blogging or profile site...

How Banks Want to Change Mobile Privacy Laws

According to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, it’s illegal to robocall a mobile phone number without permission. The American Bankers Association wants to change...
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What Happens If I Swipe My Debit Card as ‘Credit’?

It’s a question we’ve all heard when shopping: “Credit or debit?” It seems straightforward, just the cashier asking you what type of payment card...

Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan: Do As I Say, Not As I Do

“If we’re going to be connected, then we need to be protected,” President Obama proclaimed at the Federal Trade Commission on Monday. In wide-ranging...

How Serious is the US CentCom Twitter Hack?

While President Obama was announcing his initiative to boost cyber security, the U.S. Central Command's Twitter and Youtube accounts were hacked by a pro-ISIS group....
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It’s Tax Season. Do You Know Where Your Mail Is?

During the holiday season a missed or stolen package can be aggravating, which is doubtless why you eagerly watched for deliveries all December, calling...

How the Sony Hack Is Changing the Way I Work

  If the past two years have revealed anything, it’s that every conceivable mode of communication comes with its share of serious privacy and security...

Is Your Christmas Present Spying On You?

T’was the night after Christmas, when all through the house Every stripe of device with no need of a mouse Sent oodles of data to that...

The Most Important Lessons You Can Learn From the Sony Hack

Angelina Jolie may have been all thorns when she ran into Sony’s Amy Pascal last week after the hacker group Guardians of Peace leaked...

5 Big Privacy Predictions for 2015

It seems like there were more companies that had privacy-related problems in 2014 than didn’t. And the lucky ones that didn’t “get got” were...