by PawnMaster | Aug 9, 2016 | Security
Your school or workplace may require you to change your password every couple months or so to keep your account safe. It’s a widely-implemented security recommendation. Except it’s totally wrong. The Federal Trade Commission’s chief technologist,...
by PawnMaster | Aug 8, 2016 | ecommerce
eBay has been warning sellers about its upcoming ban on active content that it announced 4 months ago, and we are getting questions from readers about what it means and how it will impact...
by PawnMaster | Aug 4, 2016 | EMV
When the EMV card liability shift happened in October 2015, the situation seemed to be fairly straightforward: If a merchant wanted to avoid new rules transferring liability for stolen or counterfeit cards to them, they needed to accept the more secure types of...
by PawnMaster | Aug 4, 2016 | Achieve Success
It’s unfashionable to ascribe success to talent. Hard work is a much more acceptable explanation in a meritocratic society. The truth, of course, is that some measure of both is required to achieve excellence. On its own, Edison’s 99% perspiration would have produced...