Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
According to recent reports from Motherboard and Malwarebytes, cops now have capability to unlock your locked and encrypted iPhone and view your call logs, text messages and photos at will.
What’s more, they can even access your instant messaging and social media accounts if your phone signs you into those accounts automatically (always a bad idea).
And they can now do all of this without your assistance. [Read more…]
As you probably know by now, Facebook is currently under fire for a serious data breach with a firm called Cambridge Analytica.
In a nutshell, Cambridge Analytica used a malicious app to steal the personal information of millions of Facebook users during the last U.S. presidential election cycle.
Unfortunately, you could easily be one of them.
If you’re wondering if your own data was stolen by Cambridge Analytica, you can easily find out right now. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Ransomware is a type of virus that encrypts all the data on your computer’s hard drive or SSD and then demands that you pay a ransom to a hacker in exchange for the decryption key.
In other words, it holds your files and data hostage until you pony up the amount demanded for the ransom.
And the danger is very real. In fact, ransomware attacks are now one of the most common types of malware attacks being perpetrated on the public. [Read more…]
As you well know, the Internet is a massive repository of information on virtually any topic you can think of.
In a nutshell, whatever it might be that interests you, you’re sure to find plenty of websites and blogs that cover it in various levels of detail.
Like you, I have a short list of favorite places on the web that I visit regularly for the latest news, information and tips on the topics that interest me the most.
I thought you might be interested in some of them, so I have listed my top six favorites below (and surprise – not all of them are tech related): [Read more…]
If you use the popular goo.gl URL shortener service from Google you’ll need to start using Bit.ly, Ow.ly or some other service to shorten (and optionally track) your URLs.
Google has just announced in a blog post that they’re planning to stop supporting the goo.gl service and transition existing users to their Firebase Dynamic Links service, starting this month.
As explained in their blog post, Google will be executing the transition in phases depending on the whether a user is new to goo.gl or already an existing user. [Read more…]