Rick's Daily Tips

Scam alert: Beware clicking links on Facebook unless you trust the original poster.

Posted on February 19, 2023

Germany’s Friedrich-Alexander University conducted a study to determine how many Facebook users click on links without knowing the people who posted them.

To say the least, the results are shocking.

The study found that approximately 40% of all Facebook users click on links that were posted by people they don’t even know, let alone trust.

What’s more, they also found that a whopping 56% of email users click on links in emails from unknown senders, the vast majority of which are likely phishing emails sent by hackers and online crooks. [Read more…]

Q&A: Can you determine someone’s location by their IP address?

Posted on February 18, 2023

Question from (name withheld by request): I hope you can help me, Rick. Someone is sending me threatening emails, and it has me worried.

I’m pretty sure it’s my ex-boyfriend because he mentions things in the emails that only he should know about. The thing is, I don’t recognize the email address.

Is there any way to trace the IP address from the email headers and find out where the emails are being sent from?

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Q&A: Is Wikipedia going to start charging their users a fee?

Posted on February 18, 2023

Question from Maya: I just heard Wikipedia is going to start charging people a monthly fee if they want to keep using their website.

I use them a lot and it concerns me that they might start making me pay.

Are they really planning to start charging their users a fee? [Read more…]

My best tip for protecting your accounts from hackers

Posted on February 17, 2023

As you probably know, hackers are breaking into web services and online accounts virtually every day.

And unfortunately, the methods they’re using to do it are getting ever more sophisticated all the time.

That’s why you need to do everything you can to lock down your own accounts as much as possible.

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