Smart Device Security Workflow: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide
A friend of mine had her Instagram taken over last year. Not hacked in some dramatic movie sense, nothing cinematic about it, someone just found an old password from a breach years back, one she’d reused without thinking, and walked right in. She…
Your Browser Knows Everything About Your Workday. This Checklist Locks It Down
I counted once, out of curiosity, roughly how many things I do in a single workday that run entirely through my browser. Email. Client portal. Video calls. Document editing. Invoicing. Research. Honestly nearly the whole job happens in one application,…
Simple Smartphone Security Tips
My phone slid out of my jacket pocket on a train a while back. I found it four minutes later, wedged under the seat in front of me. But in those four minutes, I ran through everything a stranger could do with it. My email. My banking app, which I’d…
How to Secure Your Online Accounts
I got an email a while back that said someone had tried logging into my account from a city I’d never set foot in. Nothing happened, thankfully — the login was blocked — but it sat with me for a few days. Not because I thought I was specifically…
Password Manager Guide for Families: How to Actually Set One Up
My sister called me up a while back, kind of annoyed, asking how her twelve-year-old had guessed the wifi password, the streaming login, and like three other accounts. Turns out everything was some version of the dog’s name plus a birth year.…