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How to enable Two-Factor Authentication on your WordPress.com account

Posted on April 15, 2019

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…]

If you have a Smart TV, get ready to see targeted ads like the ones that follow you around the web.

Posted on March 20, 2019

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.

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Heads up: That ‘Time to Shift!’ notice from Microsoft that’s making the rounds is NOT a hoax.

Posted on March 1, 2019

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…]

If you use any of these apps from the Microsoft Store, delete them NOW!

Posted on February 18, 2019

Microsoft encourages Windows users to only download Windows apps from the official Microsoft Store because there’s no way to ensure the safety of apps that are available from third-party download sites.

Well, it appears that Microsoft needs to pick up their game a bit if they want to maintain the Microsoft Store’s reputation as a source for safe app downloads.

Security firm Symantec has just discovered that at least eight apps available from the Microsoft Store start engaging in crypto jacking operations immediately after they are downloaded and installed on a user’s Windows machine.

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YouTube takes action to ban dangerous ‘prank’ and ‘challenge’ videos from their site

Posted on January 18, 2019

For years people have been making dangerous “prank” videos and sharing them on YouTube hoping to see the videos go viral.

A lot of those dangerous videos did end up going viral, inspiring thousands of copycats to attempt to recreate the prank.

As one might expect, many of those copycat pranksters ended up getting seriously hurt while filming their own versions of the stunts.

Things became even worse when the prank video makers started actually challenging viewers to make similar videos of their own.

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