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Common Types of Cyberattacks and How to Avoid Them

There are a few common types of cyberattacks. Cybercrime is proving an increasingly costly drain on the global economy. Research indicates that cyber…
Will Simonds
November 8, 2019

How To Keep Your Personal Information Private When Using Social Media

There are likely millions of people who practice safe, common sense, shrewd personal security: We never use “password” for our password, we only use…
Will Simonds
November 1, 2019

How to Avoid Phishing Scams

With great convenience, and virtually fathomless access to information, entertainment, and ecommerce, comes great risks. That’s the trade-off that al…
Will Simonds
October 14, 2019

DeleteMe’s Best Practices for Mobile Device Security

Until fairly recently, there was a disconnect between the way many users treated security of personal computers versus their portable devices.  PC’s…
Will Simonds
October 7, 2019

Why You Should Care About Your Online Reputation and How to Protect It

The internet is a massive marketplace of products, services, and ideas. Unfortunately, the sheer mass of all three on the internet means that inevita…
Will Simonds
September 30, 2019

DeleteMe’s Best Practices for Securing Social Media

For privacy-minded people, securing social media accounts present a tricky trade-off between maintaining online relationships with friends and family…
Will Simonds
September 20, 2019

Privacy Mistakes That Can Complicate Life & Cost Your Job

With the recent wave of high-profile data breaches, business hacks, private information dumps, and financial network intrusions, internet security an…
Will Simonds
July 24, 2019

Tips for Protecting Your Reputation Online

How much is someone’s privacy worth? In some cases, it is literally worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times reported in February 20…
Will Simonds
July 9, 2019

You Got a DNA Test Kit: Now What? Staying Private with Ancestry DNA, 23andMe

Concerned about your privacy while using a DNA test from Ancestry DNA, 23andMe, or other DNA testing company? You should be. Use this guide to stay p…
Julianne Subia
January 16, 2019

Your Voter Records are Being Sold

Yesterday, I woke up at 6AM to vote in Midterm Elections, in person, for the first time in my American life. I got there just as my polling station o…
Julianne Subia
November 7, 2018

Common Types of Cyberattacks and How to Avoid Them

There are a few common types of cyberattacks. Cybercrime is proving an increasingly costly drain on the global economy. Research indicates that cyber…
Will Simonds
November 8, 2019

How To Keep Your Personal Information Private When Using Social Media

There are likely millions of people who practice safe, common sense, shrewd personal security: We never use “password” for our password, we only use…
Will Simonds
November 1, 2019

How to Avoid Phishing Scams

With great convenience, and virtually fathomless access to information, entertainment, and ecommerce, comes great risks. That’s the trade-off that al…
Will Simonds
October 14, 2019

DeleteMe’s Best Practices for Mobile Device Security

Until fairly recently, there was a disconnect between the way many users treated security of personal computers versus their portable devices.  PC’s…
Will Simonds
October 7, 2019

Why You Should Care About Your Online Reputation and How to Protect It

The internet is a massive marketplace of products, services, and ideas. Unfortunately, the sheer mass of all three on the internet means that inevita…
Will Simonds
September 30, 2019

DeleteMe’s Best Practices for Securing Social Media

For privacy-minded people, securing social media accounts present a tricky trade-off between maintaining online relationships with friends and family…
Will Simonds
September 20, 2019

Privacy Mistakes That Can Complicate Life & Cost Your Job

With the recent wave of high-profile data breaches, business hacks, private information dumps, and financial network intrusions, internet security an…
Will Simonds
July 24, 2019

Tips for Protecting Your Reputation Online

How much is someone’s privacy worth? In some cases, it is literally worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times reported in February 20…
Will Simonds
July 9, 2019

You Got a DNA Test Kit: Now What? Staying Private with Ancestry DNA, 23andMe

Concerned about your privacy while using a DNA test from Ancestry DNA, 23andMe, or other DNA testing company? You should be. Use this guide to stay p…
Julianne Subia
January 16, 2019

Your Voter Records are Being Sold

Yesterday, I woke up at 6AM to vote in Midterm Elections, in person, for the first time in my American life. I got there just as my polling station o…
Julianne Subia
November 7, 2018
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