Hilton, Starwood. Marriott. Mandarin Oriental. Hard Rock. Trump. The list of hotels that have acknowledged breaches of their credit card systems goes on and on. This has real meaning for you, particularly so in the holiday season when hundreds of millions of us are traveling and staying in hotels.Your favorite ...
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The internet, as many lawmakers, entrepreneurs, and lawyers have discovered to their sorrow, is not a place that is easily governed by rules. Shutting down a service you don’t like only means that within days, a dozen competing entities will grow up to fill the gap. Remember how shutting down Napster only led to the ...
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Online security and privacy are seriously hot topics in today’s world, and for good reason. As our lives become more integrated and connected into the Internet of Everything, our world is rapidly becoming more convenient and less secure.The thing is, most of us are too busy to give our online privacy a second ...
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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.That means ...
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The short answer: No, you really cannot trust a hotel to keep your private information private. And no matter what, do not use debit card at a hotel, ever, at least not if it is a US issued card.The reason: Hotel data breaches involving guest credit/debit card information just keep multiplying. Most recently, a ...
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We live in a world that is making a fast transition to digital everything. Weight loss programs, books, music, even classes and parties are all available online in digital form, and the technology for these applications continues to grow and innovate exponentially fast.Of course, with this rampant growth in the ...
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