Your Smartphone Passcode Should Be Six Numbers Long (Or Longer)
Sacrifice a little convenience for maximum security.
You Are Revealing Your Location Through Your Smartphone Photos
The days of waiting for your photos to be developed—or even waiting to upload your photos to your computer—are gone. Smartphones are our main cameras these days, and they’ve gotten pretty darn good, too. But with the ease of taking and sharing photos comes a possible security risk: For many of us, the pictures we’re sharing reveal exactly where we …
Not All MFA Methods Are Equally Secure
When it comes to protecting your accounts, a strong password is a must. However, adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) is even better. If your strong password is ever cracked, or exposed in a data leak, MFA will stop someone with access to your password from breaking into your account. But while any MFA method is better that not using MFA at …
You Should Check Which Apps on Your Smartphone Are Using Your Location
Thirty years ago, no one would believe we’d all voluntarily carry around devices that could be used to track our every move. In 2024, however, that’s just the norm, as smartphones remain a must of modern life. While your iPhone or Android might be a little loose with your location information, there are steps you can take to make your …
You Don’t Need to Tell Apps and Websites Exactly Where You Are
It’s no secret smartphones have access to and actively use our locations. After all, navigation apps like Google Maps would be useless if not for location services. However, not all location data is the same. You might be surprised to learn many of your apps, by default, know exactly where you are, when they don’t need that information to function …
How to Control Which Apps Have Access to Your Camera & Microphone
These days, most of our devices come equipped with a camera and/or a microphone. Whether it’s your work laptop, with its webcam you use for Zoom calls, or your smartphone, whose camera you use for all the photos and videos you take, it’s hard to find a piece of tech without these features. For the most part, that’s great. After …
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