Drama Kings and Drama Queens Fuel the Latest Internet Drama Understanding the Latest Internet Uproar: Your ISP Selling Your Browsing History First, we are 100% in favor of everyone doing everything they can to stay safe on the Internet, and doing what they can do to keep as much personal privacy as they can. But we don’t believe… Read More »
The Keylogger In Windows 10 There’s a big uproar on Reddit and other sites about a “keylogger” that is built into Windows 10. A keylogger is generally considered spyware as it logs and record every keystroke on a PC. The recent commotion is mostly about exaggerated information and hyperbole, including the claim that Microsoft is logging every single… Read More »
WikiLeaks, the CIA and You Most of you have heard about WikiLeaks publishing reams of top-secret (classified) CIA documents, many of which pertain to the tools and methods used by the CIA to spy on or hack targets. If you’re looking for a juicy anti-WikiLeaks or Anti-CIA exposé, you won’t find it here; I’m quite sure many other… Read More »
Microsoft is NEVER Going to Tell You That Your Computer is Infected In the past, most people who have run into the Tech Support or Microsoft Tech Support Scam have been contacted by scammers and warned by telephone that their computers are infected or compromised. But lately, it’s been the fake “your computer is infected with **you name… Read More »
More Bad News For Yahoo Users In spite of over one billion Yahoo accounts breached, Yahoo bleeding money, and the company in chaos, Verizon is still going to buy Yahoo, although for a few hundred million dollars less than Yahoo orginally wanted. If you think your personal data is not valuable, why else would Verizon be paying over… Read More »
Wake Up Yahoo: You’re the Security Problem… Not Me! Introduction A while back, we published an article urging those with Yahoo accounts to close their accounts and get a Gmail account or an Outlook.com account. We still recommend that you cancel your Yahoo account by following the instructions here. However knowing that many will continue to keep and… Read More »