Don’t Be Fooled by Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Scams
The Covid-19 pandemic has created prime conditions for scams. From phishing attacks to unemployment fraud, attackers have put new, more exploitative twists […]
Tag: Security / Security Advice
Now’s The Perfect Time to Start Using a Password Manager
Odds are that you, like the rest of us, are spending more time in front of a computer than you used to. […]
5 Simple Ways to Make Your Gmail Inbox Safer
Gmail even works offline now, which is great for those times when you’ve got a spotty internet connection, but perhaps not so […]
How to Set Your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to Control Who Sees What
On Instagram, you can block comments on both your public photo feed and your stories. From settings in the app, tab either […]
How Apple and Google’s Social Distancing Maps Work
If you’re eager for more data, you can download the whole lot in a massive CSV file (a very basic spreadsheet). Click […]
How to Cover Your Tracks Every Time You Go Online
Virtual private networks are useful for all kinds of reasons—pretending you’re accessing the web from a different country, for instance—but they’re also […]
How to Keep Your Zoom Chats Private and Secure
Another step you can take is to lock a meeting once you’re sure that everyone who needs to join has joined. From […]
The Top Reason Not to Ditch an iPhone for Android? WhatsApp
My partner recently made the leap from iPhone to Android. “So how do I get my WhatsApp messages from my old phone […]
How to Avoid the Worst Online Scams
When we say locked down in this context, we’re talking about your online accounts rather than your physical whereabouts, though some of […]
The Best VPNs (2020): ExpressVPN, TunnelBear, Mullvad
In my testing, speeds were good though sometimes less consistently so than with ExpressVPN. I never encountered a situation where I couldn’t […]