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The holiday shopping season has snuck up on you again! Consumers are looking desperately for the best deals and trying to keep track of prices across the web and in stores. Now Firefox has a...

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Users of Facebook and other social media sites have been sharing various versions of a fake Nordstrom gift card offer. The ad claims that Nordstrom was offering a $200 gift card to Facebook users who...

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Breach Brief – Wendy’s, Centene

January 31, 2016 | 1 Comments

January 29, 2016 Wendy’s Yet another point-of-sale system appears to have been hacked. Wendy’s fast food restaurant reports that its POS system has come under suspicion for a possible breach of customer card data. Wendy’s...

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Target Stores May Write You A Check

May 11, 2015 | 0 Comments

African-American target customers could have some money coming as a result of last years data breach. Target has reached a $10 million settlement with a federal judge on Thursday. The judge gave preliminary approval to...

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Black Consumers; Is Cash a Safer Option?

May 11, 2015 | 1 Comments

Is it time to go back to cash? In this age of technology and electronic payments the value of money has not changed. However the vulnerability of money has increased exponentially. I say it all...

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Online Price Discrimination

December 1, 2014 | 0 Comments

African-American people are extremely sensitive to discrimination. No matter what form it takes it is ugly and wrong. Unfortunately discrimination has found a home on the Internet. Its called price discrimination. We have all had...

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App of the Week: Cash Dash

November 29, 2014 | 0 Comments

Its the holiday shopping season and as I have said before merchants are waging all out war for your shopping dollars.  Wal-Mart is matching Amazon.com’s and pretty much everybody else’s online prices. Price matching is...

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Online Holiday Shopping Series #4 Price Matching

November 25, 2014 | 0 Comments

Nothing is more frustrating than buying something and discovering later that another store has it for less than what you paid. And you know its going to happen sooner or later. Most of the great...

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African-Americans and Data Breaches

October 16, 2014 | 0 Comments

Why should black people worry about data breaches? Because the loss of data to cyber criminals is an exploding problem and awareness is the only way to protect yourself. Data is everywhere. Wherever you have used your...

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ALERT! JP Morgan Suffers MASSIVE Breach ALERT!

October 3, 2014 | 0 Comments

JP Morgan has set yet another record for data breaches. The financial services and banking giant reveled that 76 million households and 7 million small businesses have potentially had their private data stolen in a record...

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