While security tools will, no doubt, change in the weeks, months and years ahead, passwords will likely remain a part of healthy security hygiene. Password management is a personal grooming habit that you need to be sure to teach your kids. If they don’t learn basic password management skills from [...]
It’s not easy being a kid today. Having grown up before the advent of cell phones, omnipresent cameras, texting and a hyper-connectivity to friends, families and strangers worldwide, I can’t really say which aspects of the digital age would have been a problem for me as a teenager. But, no [...]
By Jennifer Geller, Savvy Cyber Kids Contributor The ‘world-wide’ expanse of the web and our digital worlds means we can reach out and touch someone – pretty much everyone we know and then some—almost effortlessly. One might say thoughtlessly. As a digital parent you have likely offered your kids sage [...]
How many website passwords do you keep track of? Way more than you can remember, right? I know that you KNOW that you are supposed to use strong passwords – long, unpredictable passwords that contain numbers and symbols, and use unique passwords for every website. And I know that you [...]
Think the answers to your security questions are safe? Think again. Your mother’s maiden name. The street you grew up on. The color of your first car. Your childhood best friend’s name. Where your parents met. Your favorite country. Where you met your mate. The city where you were born. [...]
What, you don’t have a cyber super hero identify? Cyber villains are on the loose and armed like never before. Equifax + Alteryx = your mere mortal identity information is on the loose. And the cyber villains are using everything they can find in the wild to launch their attack! [...]
Technology and convenience go hand-in-hand, right? It’s true. We can now conduct our personal and professional business activities online in ways that hardly could have been imagined even just a few years ago. But, like with everything else, there is a price to pay for added convenience. And in this [...]
Four quick and easy ways to protect your online privacy. Changes in privacy regulation often get attention in the mass media, but not clarity. Although the headlines are by design meant to illicit a wide range of emotional responses, the details about the actual impact of the privacy legislation are [...]
Updating your software the first chance you can is crucial to protecting yourself from cyberattacks. Here’s why. You get them all the time—those annoying popups that invite you to install the latest update on your phone, tablet or computer. The notifications typically come at inopportune moments: when you’re in a [...]
If someone you didn’t know approached you on the street and asked you where you lived, would you tell them? Probably not. If they asked you where you banked and for your account number and online banking password, would you consider giving out that information? Very unlikely. Face-to-face and in [...]
