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In the period after 9/11, emotions were running high for Americans. The sentiment of a nation was expressed perfectly in a special commercial produced by Anheuser Busch.

Recently there was a major settlement due to a breach from Equifax. You could choose from up to one hundred twenty-five dollars or three years of credit monitoring. Now they are saying you should have chosen the monitoring because you may never see that money.

Another data breach is hitting 100 million people.

There's nothing worse than having to wait in the line at the new Starbucks location on Commercial Drive in New Hartford. I don't mind doing it every once in a while - but now you can avoid the line all together and make it in your own home!

FaceApp seems harmless, but could be another lurking online danger.

The discount is geared toward K-12 teachers, but Target will also offer the savings to teachers working at day care centers, early childhood learning centers and home schooling parents and teachers.

Travel the U.S., enjoy cool pools, and write about your experiences.

If you had any testing done at the Quest Diagnostics in Utica or in Rome recently, your information may be at risk. The company, one of the country's largest providers of diagnostic testing, recently announced that around 12 million of its customers may have had personal, financial and medical …

FYI: If you're planning to do a little grilling heading into Memorial Day weekend, you might want to check the products you plan on cooking beforehand.

There is another major recall coming from the Ford Motor Company. Now it's for over two hundred fifty thousand cars that have a gearshift problem.

The items being recalled include Ben & Jerry’s Coconut Seven Layer Bar bulk and Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey pints, which may accidentally contain tree nuts including almonds, Brazil nuts, and hazelnuts that are not declared in the ingredient list or allergy information list.

This past Thursday, Krebs on Security reported that Facebook had as many 600 million users passwords stored in plain text. What does this mean? Well, any of Facebook's employees could have looked up that information. Yikes.