The long chain of data breaches that have been in the news of late should be a huge wake-up call for everyone who is concerned with their online security.
It seems that every day or two we hear that another online service has been hacked and their customers’ personal information stolen.
Short of simply closing all of your online accounts, there’s really nothing you can do to prevent the services you use from getting hacked since the security of their servers and software is entirely out of your control.
There are a couple of things you can do however to limit a successful hacking attack’s effects on your own life: [Read more…]
Two-Factor Authentication is an awesome feature that adds an almost insurmountable second layer of security to any online account that supports it.
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It seems like there’s a cell phone in virtually every pocket these days, and having one in yours makes it easy to lock down access to many of your online accounts using a method known as Two-Factor Authentication.
By now you probably know how important it is to enable Two-Factor Authentication on all of your online accounts.