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Do you or someone you know use the popular “Ever” photo storage app?
If so, you need to know that according to this NBC News story the company behind the app is using your photos for face recognition purposes!
The company says they’re only using their customers’ photos to “train” the app, but who knows what’s really going on behind the scenes?
Question from Darlene G.: I keep receiving a notification on my computer saying Microsoft is going to stop supporting Windows 7 in January.
I really like Windows 7 and I hate the thought of having to upgrade to Windows 10!
Is this really true or is it a scam?
I’ve learned from reading your blog that a lot of scams are spread by notifications like this.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
By now you probably know how important it is to enable Two-Factor Authentication on all of your online accounts.
In a nutshell, enabling Two-Factor Authentication on an account adds an extra level of security to that account’s login process.
And with all the hacking and scamming going on in the world today you really do need that extra level of protection on each and every one of your online accounts!
Here’s a general overview of how this powerful security measure works to protect an account from hackers: [Read more…]
Have you ever looked at an item on an online shopping site and then seen an ad for the very same item show up on the next website you visited?
Or perhaps you’ve done a web search on a topic only to see ads for items related to that topic follow you around the web from site to site?
Those creepy “follow me around” ads are officially called “targeted ads”, and they’re extremely effective at getting people to buy the products they’re hawking.
Many of the posts I publish on this blog are warnings about scams and hoaxes that happen to be making the rounds at the time.
Well, this post is sort of the opposite of those “Scam Alert” posts.
I’ve had several people message me to ask whether the “Time to Shift” notices from Microsoft are real or if they’re a hoax.
If you haven’t seen one of these notices yet, you surely will before long. The wording can vary slightly, but they typically read something like this: [Read more…]