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Financial vulnerability as we age

March 29, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article about how aging impacts our ability to see “bad things.”  From their article “Finances and the Aging Brain”: “…investors … can end up victims of financial predators, and new findings in psychological and neuroscientific research are helping to explain why. As people age, they become more focused on maximizing positive emotions and social interactions—and more determined to block out negative experiences. This process, which experts call socioemotional selectivity, leads older people—including the affluent—to pay more attention to those who make them feel content and comfortable. At the same time, they are more likely to neglect warning signs that might have been obvious at a younger age.”

You can find the article here:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304185104579435470263886360?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_yourmoney&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304185104579435470263886360.html%3Fmod%3DWSJ_hpp_sections_yourmoney

Filed Under: Becoming More Secure, Beware! Scams, Threats, and Vulnerabilities

Encrypted Data is not Secure

December 4, 2013 by admin

According to documents leaked by John Snowden, the N.S.A. has been hard at work to compromise all encryption techniques.   Encryption is used constantly, especially on commercial websites, placing orders, sending email, etc.  If true, then this would allow the N.S.A. to read anything it’s able to capture – which we already know, from Snowden and confirmed by N.S.A., is just about everything… Click here for one of the many articles about this capability.

Filed Under: Beware! Scams, Threats, and Vulnerabilities, Computer Industry News

Malware on Android Phones

December 4, 2013 by admin

Another Times blog wrote that the US government publicly released a document warning about security issues on Android phones.  This includes all HTC and Samsung phones.  One of the vulnerabilities included texting, whereby secret charges can be made to a user’s phone bill.

Filed Under: Beware! Scams, Threats, and Vulnerabilities, Computer Industry News, Hardware, Software, Virus & Virus Protection

Threats on Phones

December 4, 2013 by admin

It’s bad enough that computers can have spyware and viruses.  But your phone too is also a phonepossibility – and to my thinking, a much more desirable target.  Do you have a banking app on your phone?  Do you check your stocks or retirement accounts on it?

“A Lookout threat report this year said a tiny but growing portion of its Android user base in the United States – half a percentage point – had unwittingly downloaded mobile Trojans. And 1.6 percent have downloaded adware that pilfers their personal data without their knowledge.”  (Click here for the complete article on the NY Times.)With Android in particular being so susceptible, I highly recommend that either you do nothing that could be compromised on it, or have security software on it.

Filed Under: Beware! Scams, Threats, and Vulnerabilities

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