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Comments Email This Article Print This Article Order a Reprint I love a good deal. In fact, there are plenty of things I won’t buy unless they’re on sale. However, Len Penzo at Len Penzo dot Com makes a good point about paying more for certain things — yes, paying more. He writes in Contrarian [...]

By Donna Rapado Airlines Pulls Ad Spoofing Secret Service Colombian Prostitution Scandal April 21, 2012 Updated Apr 21, 2012 at 12:47 PM PDT Miramar-based Spirit Airlines issued an apology and pulled a racy ad spoofing the Secret Service Colombian prostitution scandal that many people found offensive. The Secret Service said Friday that three of its [...]

Dear Action Line: Aren’t automated calls from telemarketers illegal? Even though I am registered on both state and federal Do Not Call lists, I still get these calls. What can be done to stop them? – E.W., Tulsa. The federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act requires all prerecorded voice messages – robocalls – to identify the [...]

<!– –> Tweet – A A A + Written by Lauren Melvin <!– –>      Greensboro, NC — US Airways is warning customers about e-mails that claim to be from them. The emails are called phishing. US Airways officials said some customers are getting them, but so are people who haven’t even booked flights. Some [...]

View full sizeAP PhotoIn this Feb. 2, 2012, file photo, the transfer case containing the remains of Marine Lance Cpl. Edward J. Dycus, 22, of Greenville, Miss., sits at the end of the loader ramp, upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del. From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — An Afghan soldier shot to [...]

(RNN) – A Tumblr blog called Texts From Hillary Clinton is a victim of its own success. The website that featured the Secretary of State “texting” with politicians and celebrities with internet slang is pasted over a photograph of Clinton checking her Blackberry has called it quits. “After a week that included 32 posts, 83,000 [...]

(RNN) – A Tumblr blog called Texts From Hillary Clinton is a victim of its own success. The website that featured the Secretary of State “texting” with politicians and celebrities with internet slang is pasted over a photograph of Clinton checking her Blackberry has called it quits. “After a week that included 32 posts, 83,000 [...]

(RNN) – A Tumblr blog called Texts From Hillary Clinton is a victim of its own success. The website that featured the Secretary of State “texting” with politicians and celebrities with internet slang is pasted over a photograph of Clinton checking her Blackberry has called it quits. “After a week that included 32 posts, 83,000 [...]

With 5,000 friends and 800 more on a wait-list to join, the “Riverton Utah” Facebook page should be the envy of other municipalities. But Riverton doesn’t own that page. It’s one of many look-alike pages, streams, feeds and profiles of government entities and politicians — both inadvertent and intentional — that are popping up all [...]

Rachel from Cardholder Services, please stop calling. We all know you’re a scam. If you’ve never heard from Rachel, consider yourself lucky. Rachel is the name untold millions of Americans have heard when answering their phones with a message that at first appears to be coming from their credit card company. “Hi. This is Rachel [...]

Print 16 comment(s) – last by HrilL.. on Mar 28 at 12:00 PM Planned DDOS campaign against DNS is meant to highlight piracy legislation issues Al Gore may have finally met his match.  While members of Anonymous aren’t planning on inventing the internet, they are planning on destroying it — supposedly.   The tricky thing about Anonymous is that [...]

Print Planned DDOS campaign against DNS is meant to highlight piracy legislation issues Al Gore may have finally met his match.  While members of Anonymous aren’t planning on inventing the internet, they are planning on destroying it — supposedly.   The tricky thing about Anonymous is that they’re Anonymous, so it’s hard to differentiate fact from fictional prank, even if [...]

Pro-China hackers have started spoofing security firm AlienVault’s email address in spam messages in an attempt to infect pro-Tibetan recipients with malware. The move follows days after the security tools firm warned that AlienVault about spear phishing attacks against a number of Tibetan organisations. The spear-phishing messages relate to the Kalachakra Initiation, a Tibetan religious [...]

<!– –> Tweet – A A A + <!– –> That call you received on your mobile phone might not be from the company that popped up on your Caller ID. Cyberthieves are stepping up phone-calling scams that pilfer the accounts of consumers who bank online. And many such calls are linked to Caller ID [...]

Amarillo, TX- The number calling your phone may not be who it says it is and could lead you to fall victim to a new scam. Scammers are now gaining access to your checking and savings accounts by using technology such as smart phone applications, called caller ID spoofing, making you believe the number calling [...]