This list of the worst data breaches of 2014 isn’t even going to include the Sony Hack. It was just the sexiest hack of the year, with Hollywood celebrities and world-stage drama. The real worst data breaches of 2014 involved your information, credit card data, and personal details. Read about them below.Read More »The Worst Data Breaches of the Past: PWNED Edition
IPVanish is our top ranked VPN for a reason – they continue to expand their exceptional tier-1 network to places you wouldn’t even think of. Their presence in North America and Europe is well established, but the new IPVanish server which they just added is somewhere you wouldn’t expect.Read More »The New IPVanish Server in Eastern Europe
Safe browsing should be one of the next biggest pushes that people learn about. The digital world is becoming closer ingrained with the real world all the time. P2P file sharing risks are very real, and can result in a number of real world problems if you’re not careful.
In an effort to help people understand online security better, this article is going to look at a number of P2P file sharing risks, and then give you a few tips on how you can get past them and share safely.Read More »P2P File Sharing Risks: Don’t Go Unprotected!
Social media security risks are very real. Hardly a week goes by where I don’t see a message from someone stating that their social media account has been hacked. What are these major social media security risks, and how can you defend against them? Read on for my tips and suggestions!Read More »Social Media Security Risks & How to Defend Against Them
By now, we’ve all heard of The Fappening, where celebrities have had their pictures stolen from the iCloud. How do you protect your information in the Cloud?
Whether you’re a business looking to make sharing easier amongst your company, or a person who wants to access data from different computers, there are six things that you can do to protect your information in the cloud.Read More »6 Ways to Protect your Information in the Cloud: Don’t Get Hacked!
A recent Daily Mail article reveals that over 5 million Gmail accounts and their passwords were revealed. A later Forbes article claimed that only 2% of these were valid. No matter what the percentage, it is still a lot higher than zero, and 2% of 5 million is still 100,000. Protect yourself against the Gmail password leak now by changing your password, and reading the rest of this article.Read More »Gmail Password Leak: How to Protect Yourself
Earlier this week I came across a blog that I liked, and I wanted to submit a guest blog to it. Guest blogging is an old school relationship building technique that has been around since the beginning of the Internet, and will outlast anyone who tries to stop it: I’m talking to you Google and WangGuard.Read More »WangGuard Blocks VPN Providers: Discriminates Against Privacy
By now, the entire world has heard about the celebrity nude photo hack. Images of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and a few others were leaked first on 4Chan (the worst place to ever exist), and spread further on Reddit. It’s believed that this happened through the iCloud, and points to why you need to secure your iCloud account.Read More »Secure your iCloud Account: Don’t be the Next Photo Leaked!
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Many people see the Internet as this mysterious place that feeds them information and porn whenever they push the right keys to do that. The basics of how the Internet works, and who has built it, seems to elude most people and this has lead to any number of online security myths being created.
Here are ten of the best/worst online security myths that still exist today. Read it to upgrade your nerd level, and downgrade your ignorance level.
Read More »The 10 Best/Worst Online Security Myths that STILL Exist