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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, March 13, 2023
• Why you should uninstall any apps that you don’t use
• How (and why) to protect your PayPal account with 2-Step Verification
• Q&A: Can you recommend a managed WordPress hosting plan for a high-traffic blog?
• Video: Here’s a little-known secret about Mount Rushmore
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.
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, December 16, 2022
• My single best Facebook security tip
• Q&A: Should I Jailbreak my iPhone?
• Q&A: How can my daughter hide her laptop screen while she’s in class?
• Timelapse video: Starscapes
Unfortunately, there are about as many scams on Facebook as there are stars in the sky.
Well, maybe there’s not quite that many but it sure seems like it!
Some scams come and go, never to be seen again. But many others just keep popping up over and over again.
One such recurring scam is the old “Call Facebook Tech Support” scam. [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post discussing several things you can do to protect your Facebook account from hackers.
That post explains how hackers will try to use phishing attempts and various social engineering techniques to trick you into handing over your Facebook password or the personal info they can use to guess it. [Read more…]