Hidden Risks of Browser Plugins
Why You Should Avoid Browser Plugins to Protect Your Privacy Browser plugins promise convenience—autofilling passwords, finding discounts, customizing your browsing experience—but they also introduce serious …
Internet Safety
Privacy – Disable Autofill
Just because you did not type personal data on a website does not mean you did not hand them over information. If your browser uses …
Choose Search Engine Privacy over Quality
It’s really an amazing story on how Google became a verb. Yet, Yahoo! was the first popular Web Search tool. There were other, less known …
Control the Trackers
Companies are not putting up websites, loaded with news, information, or other things of interest to you for free. Revenue is created from the number …
Use Multiple e-mail Accounts
Electronic mail (aka: e-mail or email) is a necessary evil for communications. It wasn’t always a seething pool of intermixed junk, marketing, phishing, and important …
Use Two-Factor Authentication
If a website has 2FA or MFA available to you, then USE it. MFA and 2FA are used interchangeably in this blog. Other terms used …
Obfuscate names viewable by the public
Cellphone: Do not name your Hot Spot after you or otherwise personalize it. What’s wrong with “Mike’s Phone”? First, think about what happens when you …
Use a Password Manager Tool
The main reason you want a password manager is so that you don’t have to remember your passwords except for the one to access the …
Maintain Unique & Complex passwords
Risks of compromised passwords Where does that password go once you establish it? It must reside somewhere in order to compare what you entered and …