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Yet another data breech, fraud alert

15 Friday Sep 2017

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Equifax data breach

If you have been paying attention to the real (not fake) news, you’ve heard that Equifax, one of the giant credit reporting companies was hacked and 200 million personal credit files, including SS numbers, were stolen.

I just put fraud alerts on mine and Gary’s files. I suggest you do the same.

Info from Equifax: https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com

What’s a fraud alert from the FTC: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0275-place-fraud-alert#How

Link to put a free fraud alert on your credit file: https://www.alerts.equifax.com/AutoFraud_Online/jsp/fraudAlert.jsp

Equifax executives dumped their stock before disclosing this breach: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/equifax-managers-dumped-stock/

Note to geeks: An unpatched Apache Struts framework was the exploit. The patch was announced on 3/7/2017 and the hack occurred in May, meaning Equifax failed to fix a known vulnerability. Incompetent at the very least, criminally negligent IMHO. Details

Taxes …

13 Tuesday Mar 2012

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taxes

I got our tax returns finished today. Thank you TurboTax!

2010 Income Taxes – Got my 7 Bucks!

06 Sunday Mar 2011

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taxes

I did our taxes a few weeks ago. Friday we got our federal refund. $7. The IRS deposited in directly into my checking account. Who says the federal government is inefficient?

I could use the 7 bucks to buy two gallons of gas -maybe, if the price has not gone up. Or a meal at McDonald’s. Or 0.005 ounces of gold. Decisions, decisions.

Workers saw 2 percent rise in wages and benefits – Yahoo! News

28 Friday Jan 2011

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Economics, financial

Workers saw their wages and benefits rise slightly faster in 2010 than 2009, but the gain was still the second-lowest increase in nearly three decades.

via Workers saw 2 percent rise in wages and benefits – Yahoo! News.

A 2% raise … wow, I haven’t received a raise since 2007. I’m jealous, but I’m still employed.

Movie Trailer About Wall Street’s Crimes

22 Friday Oct 2010

Posted by Dagny Gromer in culture, financial, movie, recession

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crime, financial crisis, movie, wall street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2DRm5ES-uA&feature=youtu.be

I came across this movie trailer on a film about Wall Street’s crimes that led in part the the financial crisis.

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