Financial Security/Safety

Phishing, pharming, pretexting, smishing – these are words that weren’t even in our vocabulary 10 years ago.  These new words have been developed to describe different forms or methods of common financial scams.  With financial scams being called the “crimeREAD MORE

It seems that news reports about the hacking of some popular website, and the resulting compromising of millions of user names, passwords and other personal data, have become much too commonplace. Do you use a strong password? There’s a veryREAD MORE

Recently, financial companies have seen a marked increase in the incidence and sophistication of financial fraud, especially through email. Charles Schwab has informed us that industry-wide attempts at financial fraud have increased more than ten-fold over the past five yearsREAD MORE