Security Archive

  • Is your Google Account secure? Here are the things you should do to make sure it is.

    Tweet I was just thinking about passwords and security the other day, and I got a little electric jolt. “What if my Gmail accounts got hacked? How in the world would I get them back?“ My accounts are my identity and lifeblood online. If they […]

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  • Secure your other electronics!

    Tweet I know we talk a lot about: backing up your computer data that may hold sensitive PDFs adding different passwords for different things changing passwords ever so often securing your online presence .. but we haven’t touched on securing OTHER electronics that are seemingly […]

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  • How to prevent identity theft

    Tweet The cost of identity theft to consumers, banks, credit card firms, stores and other businesses is estimated to be $2.5 billion (CDN) Take preventative measures now and you will not have to cry later when you have your identity stolen. It’s like backing up […]

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  • Phishing emails

    Tweet Got this email in my inbox today: LOOKS GOOD, RIGHT? Wrong. What tipped me off as being suspicious was the email address: paypal@email.paypal.ca It didn’t automatically realize it was a Paypal email because you can see that it did not automatically download the images […]

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  • Passwords and everything about it

    Tweet It’s usually common practice to change your passwords once every 6 months or once every year. The only problem is that people tend to leave this until the last minute and/or they never even do it at all because it’s a hassle to keep […]

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