I don’t know what the U.S. Postal Service says about theft of packages by its employees, but it does happen. The good news is that I discovered a very effective way to help prevent it from happening.
Let me be the first to admit that this discovery is not based on any kind of intentional test [...]

We’ve all heard about outsourcing and how many people believe that it is a practice that has been detrimental to the American worker. Big companies will always opt for the cheaper way of doing things. If they can fire a $100,000-a-year American engineer and hire a $20,000-a-year engineer from India, they are going to do [...]

I’m beginning to see a trend here: State governments are hiring idiots to run various web sites and other supposedly ‘internal’ systems.
The problem is the increasing number of cases where data that is supposed to be accessible only on internal systems is showing up on the Internet for anyone to access.
Yesterday I posted about the Louisiana [...]

This time it’s the Louisiana Board of Regents — an organization that oversees the state’s institutions of higher education — that has managed to expose personal information belonging to some 80,000 individuals to just about anyone who was able to stumble across it.
Although the information was part of an internal web site, the data was available to just [...]

I recently stumbled across an article that made a very good point. If you plan to throw away or sell an old computer, be certain that all of the information on the hard drives has been erased.
When I say ‘erased,’ I do not mean that you can simply delete all of the files on your [...]

A recent article provided a nice simple explanation of what a pump-and-dump stock scam is all about. I’ve had my share of experience with penny stocks a few years ago and certainly learned my lesson.
It’s easy to get excited when you hear stories about stocks that were purchased for a few cents rising up to [...]

If you have a credit card you have probably received those nifty checks in the mail from your credit card company. Some call them “convenience” checks and I am sure there are other appealing-sounding names for them, depending on the company that is promoting their use.
As you may suspect, the idea behind these checks is [...]

A new warning has been issued by the Better Business Bureau about a nation-wide scam that involves phony locksmiths.
According to the report, two companies are behind most of the dirty dealings currently going on: Dependable Locksmith of New York and Basad Inc. of Englewood, Colorado.
The BBB says these two outfits have connections in other cities [...]

One clever method computer crooks use to infest your computer with damaging programs like spyware and “trojan horse” programs is to send out millions of e-mail greeting cards.
E-mail greeting cards became popular a while ago and there are a lot of legitimate web sites that you can use to compose a greeting card and have it [...]

In case you have missed it, the title for this post is a take-off of the TV commercial for Verizon’s FiOS Service where the wide-eyed little kid is so impressed with the Verizon service technician’s truck, which appears to be some kind of window into another dimension or something when the rear doors are opened.
There [...]