Dec 29, 2018 | Privacy, Radio Show, Security
The Next Big Risk To Your Privacy: Your Child’s Video-Game Habit Be careful who you play with. Online gaming is a growing target for hackers, a new report from identity theft protection firm Experian EXPN, -0.11% found. Cyber criminals are increasingly posing as...
Dec 22, 2018 | Radio Show, Security, Tracking
Your Apps Are Tracking You — Here’s How To Stop Them The apps on your phone are tracking you when you go to the grocery store, when you drive to work, and when you travel to doctor’s appointments. Security experts have long expected various companies track users...
Dec 22, 2018 | Hacking, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Marriott Says It Will Pay For Replacement Passports After Data Breach. Here’s Why That’s Likely Baloney As you have no doubt heard by now, Marriott disclosed a massive data breach that exposed up to 500 million customer records. Hackers accessed...
Dec 22, 2018 | Facebook, Google, Internet, Radio Show, Security
The 21 Biggest Data Breaches Of 2018 It seems like every week, a new company has to notify its customers that their data may have been compromised, and personal information may have been affected. Data breaches can happen for a variety of reasons. Some companies are...
Dec 15, 2018 | Computers, Cybersecurity, Email, Microsoft, Radio Show, Security
A Bug Left Your Microsoft Account Wide Open To Complete Takeover A series of vulnerabilities has left Microsoft users’ accounts — from your Office documents to your Outlook emails — susceptible to hacking. This one is showing how today’s complex systems can have some...
Dec 15, 2018 | Computers, Cybersecurity, Radio Show, Security
Equifax Breach Was Just As Infuriating And Dumb As You Thought, New House Report Finds House Republicans spent 14 months investigating the 2017 Equifax breach only to reach the same conclusions that virtually everyone else with a brain did in the immediate aftermath...