6 Public Wi-Fi Security Tips
Ideally, unsecured public Wi-Fi hotspots should just be avoided. However, their convenience and freeness make it somewhat difficult to resist connecting to them, especially in situations when you...
View ArticleFake Followers? Why This Company Might be Selling Your Stolen Online Profile
Having a large following on Twitter can mean big business. And as anyone who is active on social media probably knows, it’s all-too-easy to buy fake followers in an effort to appear more influential....
View Article3 common password security myths exposed
From social media to office emails, people use passwords on almost all facets of internet communication. Why, then, do they still create passwords that would take a hacker only a few seconds or minutes...
View ArticleYour fitness app might be exposing where you live
Social fitness apps allow us to share our training, track our progress, and follow our friends’ workouts. They’ve done more to motivate people to stay active than perhaps any other workout tool,...
View Article5 things every parent must do to protect their kids online
No one is immune to the dangers of the internet. However, kids can be especially vulnerable because, at such a young age, they may not realize that certain things they do online are unsafe. So, it’s...
View Article5 common internet security mistakes you need to fix now
The shadow of 2017’s big data breaches have scarcely passed, and already another internet security scandal is shaking the world: Cambridge Analytica’s alleged misuse of vast troves of Facebook user...
View ArticleHow to keep your kids safe on YouTube
Do you let your kids use YouTube? If you’re like most parents, you probably do—after all, nothing keeps a child content like an iPad and some engaging kiddie videos—but how can you make sure your child...
View ArticleHow to kick people off your WiFi network
You probably pay good money for your home WiFi, so you expect that it should always work, right? If your WiFi is sluggish, or if you’re being charged extra for maxing out your data limit, you might...
View ArticleHow to protect yourself against cyber crime when traveling
Thinking back 10 years to when I first began my travels, the type of crime I was worried about was being mugged or assaulted. And as a solo traveler, I was also admittedly on edge after having watched...
View ArticleRussian hackers may have infected your WiFi router — here’s how to protect...
When the FBI released a report to tell the nation that we should reboot our routers due to an attack from Russian hackers, it was incredibly alarming. But now, it looks like the threat could be much...
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