The only sure thing in the world of information security is that there is no such thing as a failsafe solution. It's crucial not only to keep abreast of the latest threats out there, but to also act as though the mission is to find your way to safety from...

The recent Game of Phones between the FBI and Apple underscored an area in our jurisprudence that is screaming for more clarity. If there is a tipping point when the protection of consumer privacy should yield to the needs of a criminal investigation, where is it?

Few will dispute...

With the Supreme Court in flux, the highest authority in U.S. law has punted a landmark case over to the executive branch, effectively asking it to decide whether debt collectors can charge interest rates so high they're deemed illegal in some states.

In Madden v. Midland Funding, LLC.,...

Despite tales of highly sophisticated, fluid-fingered cyber ninjas working tirelessly to penetrate heretofore impenetrable, firewalled, super secure databases, many identity thieves actually have a pretty easy job getting what they need to make a killing. The number of people out there with tight personal cyber security is fairly limited --...

No matter how good or lucky the investor, no one beats the market 100 percent of the time -- unless, of course, you are Bobby Axelrod. There is, however, an investment portfolio that is somewhat more predictable. It works along similar lines, but it is possible to exercise significantly more...

Whether you love it, or it makes you want to move south of the border, Donald Trump's Great Wall of Mexico is an idea whose time has come.

That said, the Republican presidential candidate has a few things wrong.

First, The Donald's wall is misnamed. It should be called the...

On the Sunday before Super Tuesday, Donald Trump did something that would have been a serious misstep for any other campaign, and yet it was lost in conversations about renounced, or un-renounced, KKK endorsements and Hillary Clinton's rout of Bernie Sanders in South Carolina.

What happened was simple. Mr....

스티브 잡스는 사람들이 원하는 것을 이해했다. 힘든 일을 쉽게 만들겠다는 그의 고집은 - 예를 들면 PC 사용 - 애플의 성공에서 지극히 중요한 부분이었다. 애플의 CEO 팀 쿡도 같은 일을 하고 있다. 하지만 이제 '힘든 일'은 프라이버시와 암호화다.

애플은 프라이버시와 데이터 보안 정책을 늘 중시해왔다. 그러나 14명이 죽고 22명이...

Steve Jobs understood what people want. His insistence on making hard things easier -- for instance, using a personal computer -- was an essential part of the Apple success story. Apple CEO Tim Cook has been doing the same thing -- but now the "hard thing" is privacy and encryption.

There is no shortage of punditry about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's homebrew server, and the resulting fallout, aka "Emailgate." Whether you read the commentary dedicated to killing her candidacy, or calmer voices focused on the bigger picture of national cybersecurity, Secretary Clinton gets failing marks -- and rightly...

Punxsutawney Phil didn't see his shadow this year, which means spring is right around the corner. For the winter weary, however, summer is still too far away and the lure of blue-green seascapes under sunny skies is strong.

If you've decided to take the plunge, remember: Your vacation is supposed...

Incidents of identity theft held fairly steady last year, according to a new report by Javelin Strategy and Research. It would seem with time-honored methods of ripping people off going the way of Bonnie and Clyde, fraudsters -- ever sophisticated, creative and persistent -- scrambled to find new ways to...

The only way to stop tax refund fraud is to change the way the tax filing and refund system works, and while this may be a painful process for employers and taxpayers alike, it's necessary.

The Problem With Data

Unless you've been hiding out in the Unabomber Suite at...

It was not very long ago that information shared with your doctor was sacrosanct, at the same remove from exposure as utterances made under the protection of an attorney-client relationship or pillow talk in a spousal bed. That may no longer be the case -- and the fallout could be...

Here is the IRS's phone number: 800-829-1040. With an anticipated $21 billion in tax refund fraud this year, you might need it. And that figure doesn't include losses from dodges like the IRS phone scam, which has been enjoying a renaissance of late.

IRS phone frauds aren't terribly difficult...

If you're protecting important personal accounts with nothing more than a few security questions, it may be time for an upgrade.

A study from Google recently compared the use of security questions to other account recovery methods like SMS (short text messages) and an alternative email address. It...

Another New Year is upon us. Bring on another raft of resolutions I say! I mean, what would a New Year be in the absence of resolutions? As Aldous Huxley wrote in Time Must Have a Stop, "Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them....

While the concept "forewarned is forearmed" is true for every day of the year, it's particularly true during the holidays. December is the time when most of us focus less on our day jobs and more on family, friends, gift giving and celebration. The holidays are a cause for celebration...

More than a year ago, Federal Trade Commission Chair Edith Ramirez asked Congress to strengthen her agency's data security powers. "Never has the need for such legislation been greater," she said during a hearing in early 2014.

Nearly two years later, never has a statement like "never has the need...

The holiday season is a busy time of the year for identity thieves and other kinds of identity-related fraudsters. Scams abound, but if you follow a few simple rules, you can sidestep some avoidable holiday blues.

There is so much personally identifiable information floating around -- readily available on the...