Up until now, I have been showing you how to improve your security and privacy online. Whether it’s making it more difficult for your ISP to sell your data, avoiding being a victim of ransomware… [Read more…]
Sometimes you get a company with a staggeringly bad public relations problem (such as Samsung and their combustible phones). If you thought THAT was bad, and couldn’t be topped, wait for THIS. Hewlett-Packard has inadvertently… [Read more…]
In my never-ending quest to thwart the evil forces of the National Security Agency, I am always trying out new ways to conceal who I am and what I am doing online. I am not… [Read more…]
In my last article, I talked about the need to use two-factor authentication as an additional security step to secure your online accounts. Since I often get questions from people regarding what they see as… [Read more…]
It’s impossible to watch the news these days without hearing about hackers breaking into another corporate database, and making off with sensitive user information. It might feel to people that the Internet is becoming the Wild Wild… [Read more…]
The Edward Snowden/NSA revelations continue to reverberate around the world, and as a result, many people are beginning to wake up to the simple fact that their online activities are not private in the slightest…. [Read more…]
Ever since WhatsApp announced – or perhaps “overhyped” – its end-to-end encryption for chats, many users continue to ask on forums if it is the safest app around. WhatsApp claims no-one can virtually snoop on private… [Read more…]
When you walk away from your Windows PC, who knows who will take advantage of your absence? A suspicious spouse? A dishonest business partner? A nosy friend? If you have an Apple Mac, you can… [Read more…]
WordPress is responsible for running more than 27% of the world’s websites (as of February 2017), and is the platform for many well-known, high-profile sites. So that makes it a number-one target for hackers everywhere. If… [Read more…]
Cybercriminals are always coming up with more and more ingenious ways of ripping people off online. One of the latest ones – and perhaps the most invasive and insidious – is ransomware. This is when malware –… [Read more…]