Push notifications show up on your phone whenever you receive a message, email or alert from a service or app you have installed. While the majority of them are innocuous, these could potentially give anyone sneaking a peek at your phone insight into your private life or personal information. In your phone settings, you can […]

Almost everything you do on the internet is recorded by your browser. Every site you visit, all the information you enter in online forms and cookies (small files downloaded onto your computer when you visit a website) all begin to build up. This could potentially provide someone with all the data they need to access […]

Normally by default, purchases of new website domains publish your name and mailing address in a publicly searchable database. This may lead to unwanted spam. Luckily, you can typically pay a small annual fee to keep your registration information private.

If you regularly post on social media or disseminate details like addresses and names online, a criminal might attempt to break past your security questions because they have enough information to guess the answers. So why not make them up? Come up with the false name of a childhood best friend, your first street, favorite […]

Cookies track your browsing behavior for a better user experience, which usually means more targeted ads and content. But that information remains with the website; it’s wise to limit your cookie trail. If you’re using Google Chrome, head into Settings > Content > Cookies to toggle your settings. You might want to deny all third-party […]

Snapchat allows other users to add you based on mutual friends or interests. This sounds fairly safe, but might expose you to unwanted attention, or even scammers who know someone you once added to your phone and forgot about. Nefarious Snapchat requests can spread through a network of people from a single contacts book. To […]