Your fitness tracker is your health buddy! It counts your steps. Reports your heartbeat. Helps you trim down and sleep better. It can even help doctors treat you in an emergency. But did you know it can also help prove your case in court? Or (yikes!) be the best witness against you? Here’s how tracking …
April 2016: You interact with dozens of accounts online, from social media to banking to shopping. While it’s smart to protect all of them, it’s really smart to protect the ones that could cause you the most damage if hacked so here are some tips to improve online security of your accounts. Do you know …
April 2016: When Xbox 360 first came out with Kinect — the motion-sensing technology that lets you interact with games using body gestures — you were probably impressed. No buttons to push? No joystick? No Wii controller to keep in your pocket? Oh, the freedom! But did you know that gaming is just the start? …
April 2016: Here’s the usual way to find something you want to watch on a service like Netflix or Hulu: go to the site, click through the categories or use the annoying on-screen keyboard. Can’t find what you want? Repeat on the next site. Stop doing that! There’s a better way. Use these free web …
March, 2016: Ransomware, a form of malware that encrypts a victim’s files and demands money to decrypt them again, is now available to scammers “as a service” like any other cloud service. The bad guys don’t even have to be coders anymore! They just sign up for the service, invent a scam to get into …
February 2016: It can be frighteningly easy to fool an untrained customer service rep. With a few pieces of information and a convincing presentation, a scammer can get into your accounts in a matter of minutes. It’s a growing problem — customer service reps are prime targets! — with a high success rate for scammers. …
February 2016: In the ubiquitous world of passwords, password breaches and password management, one thing remains constant: passwords are annoying! But now they’re a little less annoying because you can reset hundreds of them at one time. You don’t even have to look at the passwords, much less remember them. A secure password manager does …
December 2015: If you love the hustle and bustle of crowded parking lots, long checkout lines and wondering if you got the best price, sorry, these shopping apps are not for you, sorry. They’re for the rest of us! Apps just keep getting better, and here are seven examples of easy-to-use, sit-on-the-couch solutions that can …
December 2015: The holidays aren’t just about buying. They’re about selling, too. So buyer beware is also seller beware. If you’re offering an item for sale or auction on eBay (or another online platform) where others sell the same item, there’s a scheme you need to know about. It’s called triangulation fraud and it leaves …
November 2015: Did you know that your smartphone habits are valuable? What you click, what you look at and what you eventually buy gives advertisers insights that help them sell you more stuff. So wireless providers like AT&T and Verizon track your information and sell it to advertisers — it’s one reason data plans have …