Posts tagged Money
Blippy Breach Puts Credit Cards Numbers on Google
51 year ago
I thought that number was between us!
Not too worried about how you share your personal information online? Well, VentureBeat has reported on an incident that should make you rethink your position. Blippy, the purchase sharing social site that I covered in January, has had a security breach. As a result, they exposed the credit card numbers of some of their users to Google search. Initial reports state that only Citibank issued MasterCards were affected.
This is a huge black eye for a company that needed to show that they had rock solid control of user data. I would think twice before I used a service like theirs, especially after a breach like this. I really don’t think knowing what your friends are buying is worth the risk of giving up your credit card information to the whole internet. If you desperately need to tell everyone what you bought, why not just mention it on Facebook or Twitter?
Saving Money for Small Businesses
22 years ago
by David van Sunder
in Business
Save some coin with these apps and fill that bank instead.
If you’re starting a new business, it can be quite expensive to purchase all of the equipment, supplies, etc that you need to get started. Luckily, the internet has a lot of free applications that can take care of your basic needs until you need something more advanced and can afford to pay for it. Here are some apps I have used in the past and would recommend to others when money is most definitely an object. All of the following are free and available on Windows, Mac & Linux: (more…)