Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Want to get my easy to follow Tech Tips in your email?
Sign up for my daily Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter!
Question from Andy: My girlfriend and I have a bet that’s riding on your answer to this question:
Is a six digit PIN really all that more secure than a four digit PIN?
It don’t seem like just two digits could make that much of a difference. She says it makes a big difference if someone ever tries to break into my phone.
So who’s right? [Read more…]
Want to make sure you never miss one of my tips?
Sign up for my daily Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter!
Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.
You probably know by now that I’m constantly driving home the importance of creating regular backups of your computer’s hard drive or SSD.
But truth be told, how you store your backup drive is just as important as creating backups in the first place because a backup that ends up getting destroyed in a fire or some other disaster cannot be used to recover your files onto a new computer. [Read more…]
Question from Carrie: I went to Costco this morning and when I got home my phone wasn’t in my purse.
I checked both my car and my apartment from one end to other and it just isn’t here.
Then I called Costco to see if anyone had found it and turned it in at the Service Desk, but they hadn’t.
I didn’t go anywhere else, just to Costco so that has to be where I lost it.
I’m not too concerned about the phone itself. It’s an older Straight Talk phone that I was planning to replace soon anyway.
The thing that worries me is my Gmail was open (I keep it that way, stupid me). I have a lot of sensitive info and photos in my emails that I really don’t want anyone else to see.
Is there a way to use my computer to remotely sign out of Gmail on the lost phone?
Want to get my easy to follow Tech Tips in your email?
Sign up for my daily Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter!
Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.
Do you travel often for either work or pleasure?
If so, you probably worry about the possibility of a thief absconding with your laptop along with all the sensitive data that’s stored on it.
And that’s indeed a real concern since most Windows PCs, by default, do a poor job at protecting stored data from prying eyes – even if the machine is protected with a password or PIN. [Read more…]
It’s a paradox that keeps IT directors up at night and leaves executives questioning their cybersecurity budgets…
You invest in best-in-class tools for endpoint protection, cloud security, and network monitoring, expecting to build an impenetrable fortress. Yet, with every new solution you add, your organization’s actual security posture can begin to crumble.
This counter-intuitive reality stems from a critical problem known as “alert fatigue.” Your security team, tasked with protecting your most valuable assets, becomes so overwhelmed by a constant flood of notifications that they lose the ability to distinguish real threats from background noise. In this chaos, the most dangerous attacks are the ones that slip through unnoticed. [Read more…]