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I didn’t know anything about this issue. Watching Jean Chatzky on television Friday, I learned that credit card users will suffer yet another financial blow starting as early as next week (February 2013). Under new credit card regulations, merchants who take credit card payments will be able to charge credit card users more than what other customers will pay using …
Does your practice or organization utilize a computer quarantine process? If not, after reading this, you will! The day began in a typical manner, reviewing information recently received from a client to determine next steps. These records included printed documents, two CDs, and a USB jump drive (also known as a “flash” or “thumb” drive). So far, so good… After …
Day after day, people choose to break the law, and there simply are not enough resources available to address the growing frequency of crimes. Naturally the resources are directed towards the most serious offenses, such as homicides, assaults, sexual assaults and robberies. Unfortunately, as more and more members of our society put their own needs and life before anything and …
Here we go again. Another massive cyber crime exposing millions of Americans to global identify theft, at a cost to taxpayers to now provide fraud monitoring to those victims. This week’s target – South Carolina’s Department of Revenue database. The breach, reportedly perpetrated by an individual operating out of the Soviet Union, exposed the personal information, including names, addresses, social security …
Experts state our economy continues to rebound, but the reality likely is the pace of improvement is close to undetectable. In states like where I reside, unemployment is back on the rise, another sign the economy may not be doing as well as one is led to believe. The US Government continues to incur staggering debt, raising the debt limits …