Editor’s Take The SoFi Checking and Savings Account is a package deal: Sign up for a rewards checking account with low fees and receive an accompanying savings account. The account offers a competitive 0.50% APY on checking and up to 3.80%¹ APY on savings if you set up direct deposit or by depositing $5,000 or … Read more
Feb 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananDisinformation / Artificial Intelligence OpenAI on Friday revealed that it banned a set of accounts that used its ChatGPT tool to develop a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tool. The social media listening tool is said to likely originate from China and is powered by one of Meta’s Llama models, with the … Read more
Feb 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Cyber Espionage Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors have been observed targeting individuals of interest via the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to gain unauthorized access to their accounts. “The most novel and widely used technique underpinning Russian-aligned attempts to compromise Signal accounts is the abuse of the app’s legitimate ‘linked devices’ … Read more
Microsoft revealed an ongoing spear-phishing campaign that abuses the legitimate device code authentication flow to gain access to Microsoft 365 accounts.Device code authentication is used to access Microsoft 365 services from “input-constrained devices” such as printers, smart TVs, game consoles and other internet-of-things (IoT) devices that do not have a web browser.Microsoft said in a … Read more
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) have become an increasingly popular tool for financial advisors and their clients due in part to the ‘triple tax savings’ they offer: tax-deductible contributions, tax-free growth, and non-taxable distributions for qualifying expenses. However, HSAs require individuals to be covered by a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), which has tradeoffs compared to … Read more
