Tax Tips and Advice with Carrie Smith of Carefulcents.com
Directbanc.com Goes In Depth with the Personal Finance Experts and their Personal Finance Blogs. Today marks the debut of our “Asking the Experts” series of interviews with the best Personal Finance Experts from around the web. Our goal is to provide helpful information on a wide range of financial topics that affect a wide range [...]
High Credit Scores Don’t Always Have Benefits
33 year old financial planner, Jeff Rose has been trying to enhance his credit rating even though it currently stands at 780 which are 69 points above average. Rose lives in Illinois and has recently acquired a second credit card in the past year as a way of boosting his credit score. Rose has said [...]
Do Credit Scores Work?
Rest assured that lenders are asking the same questions about credit scores. After all, they want some assurance that the tools they’re using are actually doing what they’re designed to do. In fact, they track performance pretty closely because their business depends on it. You’ve heard that a FICO score of 700 in past is [...]
Zappos Announces Security Breach
Over the weekend, hackers gained access to customer data stored on Zappos’ servers. The company, which is owned by online giant Amazon.com, sent out e-mails to customers on Sunday, advising them to reset their passwords. Zappos also expired all customers’ passwords as a security measure. The popular shoe and clothing company advised that the databases [...]
Retaliation Promised by Israel After Credit Card Breach
ISRAEL The information from thousands of credit cards was leaked by a hacker named OxOmar. The Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has said that these cyber attacks are a breach of sovereignty comparable to a terrorist operation, and must be treated as such. According to the credit card companies, at least 6,000 cards had been [...]