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4 Things to Do Before Upgrading Your Phone

If you’re planning on upgrading to a new phone, make sure you remove your personal information before you trade it in. Why? Because your phone could have a lot of sensitive, personal information on it – like your passwords, account numbers,...

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16 Tips for Safe Online Shopping

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged users to be aware of holiday scams and malware campaigns when shopping online this upcoming holiday season.

There’s every reason in the world to shop online. The b...

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How to Protect Yourself Against a SIM Swap Attack

When hackers took over the Twitter account of Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, a few months ago, they used an increasingly common and hard-to-stop technique that can give them complete access to a wide array of the most sensitive...

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Public Wi-Fi Security 101

Nowadays, free public Wi-Fi is widely and readily available in larger cities—airports, restaurants, coffee shops, libraries, public transport, hotel rooms, you name it. Of course, we all know jumping on a free Internet connection can be a c...

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