December 31, 2019 Hackers publish Ring camera accounts, urge other hackers to record users in their homes Hackers keep targeting Ring accounts.
December 31, 2019 Facebook tracks you offline: How to make it stop You may not agree with Facebook’s practices, but it’s hard to argue against its effectiveness. Advertisers are willing to pay big bucks to access your data collected through the social media platform.
December 26, 2019 Shocking facts about how much your employer monitors you If you sit in front of a computer all day, you might not give a second thought to checking your personal email or taking care of some digital errands. What about taking calls from friends or family at the office? Surfing the web on your phone?
December 24, 2019 7 ways you’re exposing yourself to dangerous malware For the security conscious, 2019 has been a mess of a year. Countless data breaches and high-profile hacks have left consumers, and our information, more exposed than ever.
December 23, 2019 Why robocallers and scammers love gift cards Holly Kay bought eight $1,000 Macy’s gift cards at a California mall because a scammer told her to on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Forty minutes later, she bought $13,000 more in gift cards at that store.
December 23, 2019 ToTok is a spying tool used by the United Arab Emirates: report The popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok is a spying tool used by the United Arab Emirates to track the activities of those who download it, a new report claims.
December 20, 2019 Amazon tracked conference attendees' locations with beacons hidden in badges, report says Amazon, which has its tentacles in everything from e-commerce to cloud computing to streaming video, tracked the location of those who attended one of its recent cloud computing conferences, according to a report.
December 20, 2019 Hidden cameras: Are you being watched? The ubiquity of hidden cameras contributed to a spy cam porn epidemic in South Korea. Now a security expert is revealing “it’s going to be just as bad here.”
December 18, 2019 5 rules for creating and remembering hard to crack passwords Passwords are our first line of defense online, and the sad truth is most of us just aren’t very good at creating strong ones. We use the same weak passwords over and over again, despite knowing better.
December 14, 2019 Concerned mom warns about Ring surveillance cameras after hacker taunted daughter A Mississippi mom is sending a warning to parents everywhere after someone hacked her Ring surveillance cameras in her daughter’s bedroom and talked to her.