Cashing in on the Equifax Data Breach, Consumers’ Sense of Vulnerability THAT was fast. I’m assuming it’s no coincidence that, scarcely 10 days after the news broke of Equifax’s data breach, credit card issuers are pouncing on consumers’ new-found sense of vulnerability (note: apparently, the hackers originally broke into Equifax’s computers last Spring, and had...Read More
Weak Link: Between the Buyer and Title Company [Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, or any other entity referenced.] When it comes to housing-related cyber fraud, home Buyers and Sellers are not equally vulnerable to hackers. Buyers are much more exposed....Read More
Smarter Printers Necessitate Better Security It turns out that it wasn’t just my imagination. About a month ago, what had ordinarily been a brief delay to scan and email documents suddenly became . . . much longer (in some cases, as long as 20 minutes). High Tech Swiss Army Knives The explanation? Today’s sophisticated, combination...Read More
Needed: a Law That Requires Presidential Candidates to Release Their Tax Returns “Until Donald Trump, every major-party presidential nominee since Richard Nixon has released his or her tax returns (except Gerald Ford, who released a summary in 1976). The simple reason is that, on at least one subject, Nixon got it right: The American people...Read More
“Anti-Home Hacking Clause” Added to Minnesota Purchase Agreement Scarcely a month ago, I wrote about the case of a disgruntled Minnesota home Seller who exacted their revenge on their Buyer, post-closing, by remotely hacking into the home’s Nest thermostat (the story is that they waited for the new owner to go on vacation last winter, then...Read More
Buyer’s Agent Beware [Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, or any other entity referenced.] Thanks to heightened concerns about the security of online data, Minnesota Realtors are no longer supposed to scan and email copies of Buyers’ earnest money checks when...Read More
