Category: Wealth Protection

“A pestilence.” “Deserving of a fate worse than death.” “A curse on all their houses.” Those were some of the comments regarding last week’s article, about the scammers responsible for the epidemic of scam phone calls. To recap: By mid-2019, half of all U.S. phone calls will be scams. Ninety percent of those calls will […]

Telephone scammers steal $37 billion a year from elderly Americans. And the problem is about to get much, much worse, very soon.

Scammers want a piece of the action. But there are important and easy steps you can take to protect your privacy and wealth from attack right now…

How did this happen, especially after the bank locked her accounts? The answer is surprisingly simple. It lies with social media firm Facebook.

Seeing the ad on TV made me realize that privacy has gone mainstream. Maybe that’s why cybersecurity is becoming a $1 trillion industry…

Social media is an “anything goes” media platform. That’s OK for some things. But policy makers are concerned that political speech needs regulation.

It’s easier than ever to ruin a preschooler’s credit score. Identity theft is becoming such a massive trend that not even kids are safe.

Major cyberattacks demonstrate the rising role that cybersecurity companies play in protecting banks and other corporations from hackers.

How would you react if the confidential information you provided to your law firm and your tax accountant appeared on the front page of The New York Times?

As big as this breach was … these days, it’s nothing terribly new. Hundreds, even thousands of our nation’s largest businesses have been hacked.

To get chipped … or not to get chipped? That’s the big question. And it’s sparked a big debate here at Banyan Hill Publishing.

The government is demanding your personal information without proving that a crime has been committed.

The more people who use a network, the bigger the vulnerabilities. That’s a key reason why cybersecurity companies will keep growing for years to come.

There are some dangerous toys that I won’t be buying my nieces this next Christmas because I want to keep my family safe.

I will never willingly have a microchip implanted in my body. Does that make me a paranoiac, a Luddite … or prescient?

Is online privacy dead? I still think there’s a spark of hope. And surprisingly, it lies in social media usage.

What happens if you die or become incapacitated, and nobody else knows any of your passwords, personal identification numbers, access codes and login IDs?

Would you betray your friends for free pizza?

Mundane events are like gold ore to the data miners. They convert that information into digital portraits of us that they can sell to advertisers.

Without asking us, Big Data companies harvest, analyze and sell every scrap of data they can glean from our use of their products.

The government has every right to comb through your phone. I’ve been aware of this issue — but I didn’t realize how aggressive those searches had become.

Congress voted to repeal a rule that protected your online privacy. I have a solution to this travesty that works for me … and will work for you too.

It’s tempting to declare that George Orwell has won the debate about the future — surveillance via TV is here. But the truth is more complicated.

Toy Story got a few things right. OK, your childhood toys probably aren’t going on adventures, but some toys, like the Vizio smart TVs I mentioned last week, can spy on you.

Did you know your house is haunted? Well, it is if you bought a certain popular smart TV. This “ghost” captures 100 billion personal data points a day, and that info is up for sale.

Can you trust the person across the counter from you? Dr. Mark Rettenmaier did, only to find a government informal collaborator, and now he’s paying the price.

Alexa and similar Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have become part of the current zeitgeist. They can remember everything input into them … and the Feds are salivating for this data.

Privacy is a lie. We’ve been fed this idea since childhood. Santa is watching. Knows if you’ve been bad or good, and offers rewards for this violation. It’s time to draw a line.

No matter who’s in charge, government always finds a way to justify new methods to invade our privacy. So, here are eight steps you can take right now to mitigate the damage.

Set aside your feelings for Trump’s broader agenda. Focus on his intentions for privacy and free speech. He has never expressed interest in protecting civil liberties. In fact, it’s quite the opposite…

Recently, the Internet almost died thanks to cheap security in IoT devices. Instead of killing the IoT market, though, the event may have opened a new opportunity for investors.

The wildly popular Pokémon Go app is the latest in free-to-play genre that’s turning you, your smartphone data and your private information into a commodity to be traded for profit.

Data encryption is the last line of defense between your privacy and government overreach. But a new privacy-destroying bill before the Senate could put your personal data at risk.

The government is going after Apple’s iPhone encryption with a vengeance. The “terrorism” flag is being waved, but it’s your privacy that’s really at stake. After all, can we really trust this breach of privacy will be “one time only”?

Police may need a warrant to use GPS to track your vehicle, but new high-tech toys have created a serious loophole for government surveillance. As a result, tracking your car has created an unholy alliance between profit and policing.