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Last week, we highlighted a tip on shielding your email address from organizations you don't fully trust, while still receiving all of their messages. Email aliases and email forwarding make this possible. What you can do for your email, however,...

It wasn't just you: Microsoft had issues with its multi-factor authentication (MFA) today, Monday, January 13. Bleeping Computer first reported the issue. According to the outlet, the outage prevented users from accessing Microsoft 365 Office apps. Other users reported issues...

Modern digital life often requires us to share our email addresses. You need to provide it when signing up for new accounts, when making purchases, authentication, etc. But you don't actually need to share your actual email address in order...

As a general rule of thumb, you shouldn't send sensitive information in a message. After all, you never really know who’s on the other end. However, not all messaging is the same: Should you need to message a contact securely,...

Browser extensions are a useful way to add additional features to your internet experience that aren’t built into the program you use. However, it seems they can also be a gateway for bad actors to compromise your system and networks. ...

Data breaches are serious events in more ways than one. Of course, losing your passwords and having them out in the open is a huge security risk, since bad actors can use them to break into your accounts. However, there's...

In general, it's best practice to only download apps from official app stores. You might assume then that if you install a new program from something like the Amazon Appstore, you're safe. As it turns out, that's not always the...

Passwords have long been a security weak point. Too many of us reuse the same, simple passwords for many, most, or all of our accounts, which allows bad actors to break into our accounts all too easily. Big tech companies...

CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is currently alerting federal agencies about "ongoing attacks" targeting a high-severity Windows kernel vulnerability. That vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-35250, an untrusted pointer dereference weakness which enables hackers to gain system privileges. The...

Cyberattacks are always serious, but some affect user privacy more than others. So it is with this case in Rhode Island, which leaves the data of hundreds of thousands of residents exposed. On December 5, Deloitte noticed a breach of...