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If you can control how often you and your company have to change your passwords, you may want to stop the task of mandating forced password changes. Frequent password changes do little to improve security and could possibly make security worse. If you cannot change this regulation within your company, you may want to at… Read more »

The man known as “Spam King”, Sanford Wallace, has been sentenced for his use of stolen Facebook credentials in order to spam other users. While this is great news for justice and for those of us eager to ensure our electronic safety and security, this is merely a reminder of the dangers out there! The… Read more »

If you’re an Acer online store user, double check your credit card info and ensure no fraudulent purchases were made. If your information was lifted, you hopefully would have been contacted by Acer as the hack occurred between May 2015 and April of this year. The assumed nature of the breach is perhaps due to… Read more »

Do you utilize a wireless keyboard at work or home? Do you type in passwords, credit card information, security answers, or other personal data? Possibly up to two thirds of all lower cost wireless keyboards are prone to hacker attacks. With “KeySniffer”, these hackers can have access to all data that is typed using the… Read more »

Are you a Yahoo user or someone that once had an account and is also utilizing the same password for other websites? You may want to think about changing your password. A cybercriminal is advertising 200 million alleged Yahoo user credentials on the dark web. Yahoo says its aware of the claim, but has not… Read more »

All companies want to get the best out of their employees, which means efficiency at work and cutting back on options to lead employees to stray, such as apps and games on their computers. At the same time, all companies want higher profits and revenue, which for some companies, means luring these employees to buy… Read more »

On August 2, 2016, Microsoft’s update servers will begin delivering the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to current installations of Windows 10 that have been running for at least 30 days. While there is no reason to think this update will be anything but positive, nor is there any cause for alarm, you could have reasons… Read more »

Smartphones today are almost the equivalent of laptops or desktops in many ways. They have caches, cookies, and histories which take up a lot of storage space on your device. For some iPhones, they automatically clean themselves up once storage space gets too low. And for iPhone and Android phones, you can go into your… Read more »

Do you utilize Apple’s FaceTime to make calls with your friends? Well, that call may not be as secure and private as you had thought. Due to computer bugs, hackers might be accessing your FaceTime calls during, and even after, your conversations. Apple released few details about the bugs, saying only that “An attacker in… Read more »

Did you know that when you download an app and you mindlessly accept the rules and conditions, you may be giving that company permission to access much of your private information? Initially, Pokemon Go was accessing almost all of a user’s Google account information from emails to photos. Smartly, Niantic changed this once they were… Read more »