A report from Debtmerica Relief: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:00 The amount of credit card debt owed to lenders in the metropolitan areas that were hardest hit by high balances in the past has been falling significantly in the last year.Of the 100 metropolitan areas nationwide that had the largest credit card debt as a [...]
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Read moreA report from Shreveport Times: Scam artists are using new technology to ensnare taxpayers into schemes this year, according to the IRS. One of the most prevalent schemes involves a scammer requesting a person’s checking account number through a text message, IRS spokesman Mark Green said. The scammer informs the person he can receive a [...]
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Read moreA report from GovInfoSecurity.com: A Perfect Fit: Continuous Monitoring and Cloud Initiative By Eric Chabrow, February 20, 2012. Credit Eligible NIST information risk management evangelist Ron Ross sees continuous monitoring playing a vital role in securing cloud computing. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program known as FedRAMP [see Feds Explain How FedRAMP Will Work] [...]
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Read moreA report from WRAL.com: In 2010, eight million people were victims of identity theft. That same year, almost 50 million people paid for identity theft protection services. Consumer Reports studied those services to see if they are worth the outlay. Greg Daugherty, a money adviser for Consumer Reports, said, “We found the companies often overstate the [...]
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Read moreA report from Professional Pensions: Pensioner buy-ins are becoming increasingly attractive relative to holding gilts for pension funds, according to a price tracking service launched by Hymans Robertson. The firm’s first quarterly buy-in monitoring bulletin revealed that falling yields had pushed up the cost of all de-risking investment strategies considerably over the last year. But [...]
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