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The UK government GetSafeOnline website offers free advice and tells its users, “so now you really can stay safe with everything you do online.” Buy a Windows-based computer and the likelihood is it will arrive with pre-installed anti-virus software, often McAfee (part of Intel, which produces the processor chips most usually found on Windows computers). … Read more

It doesn’t matter where you live, or what time in history you happen to have lived. Whenever something bad happens to your country, your government will react — overreact — in a way that is ultimately counterproductive. Here’s an example: in 1798, less than ten years after the US constitution and the Bill of Rights … Read more

The report out of the Pell Center for International Relations and Foreign Policy is almost enough to make you crawl under the covers and turn off the lights. In its review of cybersecurity practices of United States’ states it found that there is plenty to worry about. Your personal data may be at very high … Read more

We are now in the beginning of the big change when, suddenly, mobile banking is under full-bore criminal assault. That means your money is very much at risk. That had not been so until now. Ask cybersecurity experts why mobile banking appeared to be significantly safer than online banking and a year ago they had … Read more

You want to hire a tech troubleshooter or maybe something as straightforward as a mover. So you do what we have all come to do in the last decade: Sift through online reviews. Stop right there. You may be putting your wallet in danger. You may even be putting your security at risk. That is … Read more

By now it has become an expected reaction to a data breach. A company announces it has been breached and, in the press release, it assures victims they will get a couple of years of credit monitoring to help them ward off identity theft. Just one problem: credit monitoring does next to nothing to prevent … Read more

It seems like every other day there’s an article in the news about a company suffering a massive data breach. The recent hacks of the controversial site Ashley Madison have left many customers questioning their online security and privacy, and around the world, governments continue to push for stronger standards to protect users. If you … Read more

The European Union is beginning to wind up its massive piece of legislation that will affect every country immediately after its implantation. Formerly known as the General Data Protection Directive, the new regulation will take immediate effect once it’s completed, which will likely be sometime in early 2016. Business owners and tech experts alike are … Read more

In one of the year’s weirdest attacks, a Gamergate-aligned troll has hacked the crowdfunding website Patreon, exposing 15 gigabytes of users’ personal information. People who don’t know much about the internet might need some help unpacking that sentence, but rest assured: this story is the perfect storm of angry black-hats, stupid admins, and pathos. First, … Read more

Recently in the news, a staff writer for Wired suffered a massive hack attack when criminals got ahold of his Apple ID information. Through that one access point, they were able to wreak havoc on his accounts, change his passwords, take over his Twitter – even remote wipe his devices, erasing precious family photos. Mat Honan was … Read more