Using Social Media Passwords With Critical Accounts
Last year, 32 million passwords were posted online after a data breach at RockYou, a company that creates applications for...
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Americans Waking Up to Social Media Privacy
There have been thousands of privacy related news reports over the past year depicting social networks, Google, marketers and advertisers...
Mortgage Purchase Applications Increase a Modest 2.1%
Mortgage Bankers Association for the week of 11/24/2010 Market Composite Index: (loan application volume) increased 2.1 percent on a seasonally...
Mortgage Rates Stable
30-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.40 percent with an average 0.8 point for the week ending November 24, 2010, up slightly...
How to Prevent a “Wikileak” of Your Data
“Wikileak” is turning into a verb. This is when sensitive information in office document files such as Microsoft Word, Excel,...
Signs of the Regulatory Battle Royale
And you thought GLB was a fight. To call the battle over financial services regulation "staggering" is to downplay its...
SPREAD ‘EM: After QE2, Some Signs of Improvement in Credit Costs
An interesting article in today's New York Times highlights the extent to which Ben Bernanke, our stalwart captain of monetary...
GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS: The Role ‘Fun’ Should Play in Banking
My kids can play their Nintendo DS handhelds for hours. We get in the car for a ride and they'll...
Don’t worry – no more fussy iPhone App development required…
As of May this year, only 4% of US FDIC insured institutions in the United States had any sort of...
What Security Issues Should You Worry About?
First thing I tell my seminar attendees is “The chances of anything bad ever happening to you is very slim....
