‘Tis the season: e-cards are now beginning to tumble into our boxes and soon will become an avalanche.  Christians have Christmas, Jews have Hanukkah, African Americans have Kwanzaa,  and other groups have other seasonal holidays, and just about all of them seem to trigger an impulse to send friends and

The European Union is beginning to wind up their massive piece of legislation that will affect every country immediately after its implantation. Formerly known as the General Data Protection Directive, the new regulation will take immediate effect once it’s completed, which will likely be sometime in early 2016. Business owners

Recently in the news, a staff writer for Wired suffered a massive hack attack when criminals got ahold of his Apple ID information. Through that one access point, they were able to wreak havoc on his accounts, change his passwords, take over his Twitter – even remote wipe his devices,

The report from security company G DATA has to frighten you: the company claimed it has found malware pre-installed on new smartphones.  Some 24 phones were found to be contaminated or were strongly suspected of infection. Included were phones from Xiaomi, Huawei, and Lenovo. What that means is a user

The scary news: ATM skimming suddenly has gotten very, very slick.  And the numbers of incidents are exploding. In late July, giant ATM maker NCR even issued an alert warning its bank customers about an explosion in attacks on bank owned ATMs, Worse, the skimming devices are getting much better.