Turn on Your Phone Number’s PIN Security RIGHT NOW
Learn how scammers take control of your mobile phone number with a "port-out" scam and hijack your online accounts. A PIN code is extra security for your mobile number.
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Three Signs I’m Staying On Top of This Digital Thing
Here are three recent notifications I've received that let me know I'm being proactive about staying safe in our increasingly complicated, and at times hazardous, digital world.
Around the House, Safety & Security
Keep a Closer Eye on Holiday Packages: UPS My Choice
Get a text the minute a package hits your front door. Sign up for two simple and free delivery managers to help keep a closer eye on holiday packages and reduce the risk of theft: UPS My Choice and FedEx Delivery Manager.
Keep Hacker Clowns and Their Tricks Out of Your Computer: Top Three Tips to Stay Safe from Ransomware
Here's a Halloween trick for you. Hackers lock you out of your computer, demanding a ransom - often with a creepy image like a scary clown. Pay the ransom, or all your photos and files are lost forever. Here are the top three tips to protect yourself against ransomware.
Apple’s Absurd Private Browsing Logic
The Private button in Safari on my iPhone was missing, and the reason is absurd. Apparently you can protect your kids or your privacy, but not both.
Around the House, Safety & Security
Nest Protect: a Better Looking, Better Performing Smoke Detector
Nest Protect is a $99 combination smoke and carbon monoxide detector that looks good and offers more functionality than those ugly white boxes.
Safety & Security, Tech Support
Enable Find My iPhone Before It Goes Missing!
If you lose your phone, and it's nice to know you can hop on the Internet and track its location immediately. To track, play sound, turn on lost mode, or erase, you must have Find My iPhone enabled first. Here's how.
It’s 10 PM. Do You Know Where Your Passwords Are?
I just discovered that over 250 passwords Chrome had saved to my computer were now available on any Chrome or Android app across all my devices. This new feature is turned ON by default. Here's why I turned off Smart Lock and which password manager I trust.
How I Finally Put 243 Passwords in Their Place
Introducing the tool I've chosen to help me keep all my passwords in line and accessible on the go. 1Password strikes the best balance of convenience and security that you'll find today.
Parenting & Kids, Safety & Security
Faces and Places: Turn Off Geo-Tagging
Turning off photo geotagging helps protect your faces and places. Here's how.
Around the House, Safety & Security
Stay Safe on Evernote, & One Big Timesaver
Last time I wrote about Evernote and cautioned against storing sensitive data there. Since then I’ve picked up some more features of this program that are worth sharing. Read on for two tricks to protect your data, and save some time.
All Aboard the Two-Factor Band Wagon
The scary-sounding, non-scary little security setting that helps protect your major online accounts from hackers: two-factor authentication. We introduced this concept last February, and since then Facebook, DropBox, and Yahoo! have joined Google in offering this extra ...