More than 74.5 million people receive Social Security benefits, according to the Social Security Administration (SSA). Many of them rely on Social Security for their financial well-being. For some ...

Apple has added a "groundbreaking" new memory security feature to its new iPhone 17 lineup called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), which the company describes as "the most significant upgrade to ...

Your monthly Social Security payment hasn’t arrived on time. You call Social Security’s 1-800 number, and a chatbot answers. The bot provides no helpful information. You repeatedly ask to be connected ...

Most retired Social Security recipients rely on their monthly payout to cover at least some portion of their expenses. President Trump's tariff policy is believed to be pushing prices modestly higher, ...

For the vast majority of people, the stream of promised retirement checks is worth more than anything else, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets ...

What security teams need to know about the browser-based attack techniques that are the leading cause of breaches in 2025. “The browser is the new battleground.” “The browser is the new endpoint”.

The Kremlin’s vision of national security comes at the expense of Ukrainian sovereignty, underlining the challenges of striking a peace deal. By Anatoly Kurmanaev Reporting from Berlin Diplomatic ...

Most people who receive Social Security retirement benefits will see their monthly payments in September 2025 as usual — with checks and direct deposits distributed according to the Social Security ...

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Days after filing a whistleblower complaint claiming that the Department of Government Efficiency put Americans’ Social Security data at risk, the agency’s chief data officer “involuntarily” resigned.

The Social Security Administration official who alleged in a whistleblower complaint that the Department of Government Efficiency had put the personal data of millions of Americans on a vulnerable ...

Social Security payments for September are starting to hit recipients' bank accounts, with the Labor Day holiday causing Supplemental Security Income checks to be sent out sooner than usual. Social ...