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Defending Your Credit: Know Your Rights

Defending Your Credit: Know Your Rights

Defending Your Credit: Know Your Rights For many people, a good credit score is a point of pride — and essential to their sense of financial well-being. After all, good credit can be the key to obtaining a mortgage or a business loan. It can ease the way to home...

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Protecting Yourself from Data Breaches and Identity Thieves

Protecting Yourself from Data Breaches and Identity Thieves

The amount of time Americans spend online — emailing, direct messaging, keeping up with social media, and simply surfing the Internet — keeps going up. According to the latest annual study by the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, we now spend close to 24...

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Decipher the Announcement of the Massive Zynga Data Breach

Decipher the Announcement of the Massive Zynga Data Breach

If you played Words with Friends your personal information was compromised Gaming apps are meant to provide a relaxing, carefree escape for smartphone users, but a massive data breach at Zynga, developer of some of the most popular social games, has players reeling —...

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Protecting Your Investment from Securities Fraud

Protecting Your Investment from Securities Fraud

We’ve all seen the headlines. A stock that was supposed to be the Next Big Thing turns out to be a loss leader. A brokerage house that was supposed to be Too Big to Fail shuts its doors. Investors complain that they were misled, and the whole venture ends in a crash...

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What Goes Up: The Volatile World of Cryptocurrency

What Goes Up: The Volatile World of Cryptocurrency

Tales of instant wealth are hard to resist. Popular media accounts about the emerging markets for cryptocurrency are teeming with stories of overnight Bitcoin millionaires — like the 19-year-old investor featured in this CNBC report, who parlayed a $1000 gift from his...

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OMG, TMI: Tips For Protecting Your Privacy Online

OMG, TMI: Tips For Protecting Your Privacy Online

These are tumultuous times out in cyberspace, from the massive data breach at Equifax last year that compromised the personal data of 148 million people to the recent revelations that private information about millions of Facebook users ended up in the hands of a...