You take a photo of your coffee cup on your kitchen counter and post it online. Nothing sensitive in the frame, right? Except the file you just uploaded might be quietly telling anyone who looks closely exactly which building you…
Simpler rewording:The mere sending of an alert does not prevent any hacking; it merely warns you of its presence. The thing that will block any hackers is your response after that alert goes out, changing your password, terminating the session,…
Wi-Fi connections in hotels, airports, and airplanes don’t automatically become hazardous. However, traveling individuals make mistakes that sound logical but transform a convenient connection into an opportunity for cyber criminals. There are no inherent risks in such Wi-Fi systems. They…
The new age of phishing scams is not one of poor grammar – it plays to your brain. Phishers use urgent deadlines, made-up authority, piqued curiosity, and minute visual cues such as a mismatch between the name of the sender…
Everyone activates their login alerts yet ends up getting hacked. What matters most is not the alert per se but what people do after receiving the alert. Failure to read an alert that you are “kind of familiar with,” failure…
The dangers of using Public Wi-Fi go beyond hackers monitoring your internet traffic; even worse, many silent and unnoticed dangers affect you even before you open your web browser. Automatic connectivity settings, file sharing enabled, syncing apps in the background,…