If you’ve ever wondered if former presidents and senators are eligible for Social Security, the answer is yes. Just as every other American who earns pays into Social Security Insurance through taxes, ...

A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private ...

In January 2026, several changes to Social Security will take effect, impacting everything from credits and taxes to benefit checks and full retirement age (FRA) rules. Knowing about these updates ...

When President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage today, the summit of the two leaders will do more than discuss the Ukraine ...

Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. Before joining the business and finance vertical, she worked at "60 Minutes," CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program.

Since at least 2012, a persistent internet rumor has claimed that U.S. Social Security payments are being renamed as "Federal Benefit Payments." In August 2025, the rumor spread again in various ...

Security operations have never been a 9-to-5 job. For SOC analysts, the day often starts and ends deep in a queue of alerts, chasing down what turns out to be false positives, or switching between ...

Fortinet and Ivanti have each published new security advisories to inform customers about the vulnerabilities fixed with their August 2025 Patch Tuesday updates. Fortinet has published 14 new ...

Some of the over 71 million Americans who receive Social Security payments may have noticed smaller checks recently; however, the payments should still arrive on schedule. A second August check is ...

Dave Lieber I was confused. Kept seeing mention of a security “key” offered on some of my favorite websites—Microsoft, Google, YouTube and Facebook, to name a few. I wasn’t sure if I should use it.

Most security teams have a good sense of what's critical in their environment. What's harder to pin down is what's business-critical. These are the assets that support the processes the business can't ...