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Stay Safe in 2026 with These New Year’s Resolutions

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We’re approaching the end of 2025, so we encourage you to consider your New Year’s resolutions. For many people, the new year offers an opportunity to reflect on habits we’d […]

Legitimately Worried That You’re Being Targeted Online? Try Lockdown Mode

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Most people fall into one of two extremes when it comes to device security. Many believe they’re not interesting enough to be targeted by online attackers and thus don’t take […]

A Practical Guide to Identifying Phishing Emails

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Phishing is becoming an ever more common way for people to get in trouble when using the Internet. A phishing attack is some communication, usually an email, that tries to […]

These New Year’s Resolutions Will Improve Your Digital Security in 2023

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Happy New Year! For many of us, starting a new year means reflecting on fresh habits we’d like to adopt. Although we certainly support any resolutions you may have made […]

Here’s How to Stop Getting Paste Permission Requests

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In iOS 16, Apple tightened security by displaying a confirmation alert when you copy data from one app and paste it into another. More security isn’t bad, but these alerts […]

Increase Business Cybersecurity Awareness in Light of Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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For several decades, Russia has targeted a wide variety of cyberattacks at countries with which it has had disputes. That includes the United States and other Western nations, which have […]

Need to Share Files Securely? Try Password-Protected ZIP Archives

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Imagine you’re staring at a file or folder—perhaps confidential employee information that you need to send to your accountant. If attaching it to an email message makes you think, “That […]

About That Worrying Message Saying Your Password Has Been Breached…

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In iOS 14, Apple added a feature that warns you when one of your website passwords stored in iCloud Keychain has appeared in a data breach. We’ve fielded some questions […]

When Asking about Phishing Email, Make Sure to Write Separately Too

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Sadly, email is not an entirely reliable communications medium, thanks to spam filters, addressing errors, and server failures. With certain types of email, it’s worth double-checking that a message was […]

Web Ads: Making the Best of a Lose-Lose Scenario

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Typically, we like to help you solve problems in these articles. But there’s one problem we all face that has no good solution: ads on Web pages. Let us explain […]

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