Internet Safety Archives
These blogs include free resources and tips on internet safety for you and/or your business.
Feb15
How to Stay Safe When It Comes to Online Dating?
You can do a lot of things using the internet. You can reach out to friends from the other side of the world, learn about amazing cultures in overseas locations, and maybe, with Lady Luck on your side, find true love. The internet paved the way for online dating. It is now mainstream and has […]
Oct26
Who Keeps Calling You? How to Identify Potential Phone Scams
It seems that no matter how stringent the laws and regulations become, how high the fines get, and how much technology advances, our phones continue to be plagued by callers we don’t recognize. And many of these calls are phone scams. Answering could compromise our safety and security, and ignoring them could cause us to […]
Jul11
Is Your Social Security Number Really Suspended?
Have you gotten a call with a recorded message, or maybe from an actual person, that claims your social security number is going to be suspended? The caller may even threaten to issue an arrest warrant. They’ll usually give you a number to call in order to correct the problem. If you call, they’ll ask […]
Jul15
Personal Information of Millions of American Voters’ Recently At Risk
In the month of June, over 198 million Americans who registered to vote in the elections in 2016 have recently had their personal information exposed while being stored online. This was due to a political data contractor called Deep Root Analytics that was associated with and employed by the Republican National Committee. Deep Root Analytics […]
Feb24
Here’s why you shouldn’t put your baby photos online
With all the changes to privacy policies all around the web, it’s difficult to keep up. I mean, how many of us actually read, let alone understand, all of the legal language built into terms of use. Some sites like Searchbug try and keep it simple with plain English (we actually want people to read […]
Nov19
Internet Search Engines and Our Privacy
Privacy is important to all of us. It’s understandable that we don’t want our personal information available to anyone and everyone. With more and more of our lives being spent online we can’t help but wonder how private our lives really are. Should we be worried about our privacy as we search the web? Let’s […]
Sep26
Cybercrime: Don’t Be a Victim
Modern technology has brought about a whole new realm of crime. There are crimes being committed using cell phones, computers, or any other type of mobile device using a network. These crimes are labeled as “cybercrimes.” This is an area of illegal activity that is growing rapidly. Not only do tech savvy criminals take advantage […]
