‘Tis the season for sitting behind a computer and letting your fingers do the walking to find presents for family and friends near and far. After all, it’s much easier to click your way to the end of a shopping…
Go through a supermarket checkout line and swipe a savings card at the register and the powers that be behind that chain will be able to glean a lot of personal information about you and your purchasing habits. To some…
The United Nations Virtual Global Taskforce estimates at least 1 in 5 children has been approached with unsolicited sexual advances in an online setting. Cyber bullying has become such a concern in some parts of America that acts of…
Speed, plugins, compatibility and security: Those are the features most people consider when selecting a browser to support online activities. In the case of latter, choosing well can be vitally important for protecting a computer and the data it contains…
Cybercrime is a big industry that keeps getting bigger. In its 2012 report on cybercrime, Norton estimated there were more than 556 million consumer victims annually worldwide. That number is greater than the population of the entire European Union. The…
One of the riskiest things you can do online is also one of the most fun – shopping! Millions of people enjoy online shopping transactions every single day. More than 80% of all internet users have gone online to buy…
When it comes to the safety of shopping online, you want to be absolutely sure you are using a secure connection. All web browsers have the capability to use encryption to secure your data, scrambling it before transit so the…
I’d say just about everyone in the information security world has heard of the Anonymous hackers “collective,” the notorious vigilantes – or perhaps cyber criminals – who seem to be behind all the major headlines when it comes to…
Photo by: Gerd Altman (Pixabay) There are many dangers of the Internet we’re all exposed to on a daily basis. Plenty of risky behaviors are avoidable to make sure things are just that little bit safer. But no matter what,…