Technology has become so prevalent in society and brought with it cyberthreats that evolve with every new generation of electronics. Email spam has been a problem for years now, from weight loss schemes to false promises of money. However, throughout the last few years, hackers have changed their methods, and it’s gotten more difficult to…
Smartphones have become the primary method of communication, payments, getting information and much more, which has made free WiFi extremely valuable. Now that a large percentage of the world is working from home, taking your laptop or tablet to that nice coffee shop for the day is surely tempting. The problem is, public WiFi is…
With every upgrade comes a new batch of tech questions, and spending hours trying to find just one answer can be frustrating, but sometimes the questions are mere curiosities. For instance, have you ever caught yourself on Pinterest or Facebook, or catching up with an old friend online and wondering if you should be using…
As we’ve all have probably heard, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are under fire for allowing user data to be collected and used in ways it shouldn’t have been, namely to track and target user’s political opinions without their knowledge. For its part, Facebook has called the incident “a breach of trust” and says it has…
There is no real default privacy on the internet. Even many of the tools explicitly designed to protect your privacy don’t work quiet as well as advertised. Our personal information is eroded through a combination of user information-driven commerce (since nearly every company sells your personal data), weak governmental protections, leaky products, hacked records and…