Google, Protect Your Account

Secure Your Google Account

Just think about how much personal information we have stored on our phones and social media profiles these days! We need to make sure that this data is protected. Today, I will help you give your Google account more protection from hackers and malicious access. I will talk about how to use two-step verification and…

Phishing for Your Money

Be Tech Smart

I imagine if you are reading this you have been online before. Maybe you are right now. Also, you may have suffered at the hands of some scammer. You may not have been hacked, had your bank account taken over, lost any money, or anything major, but tricked…most likely. Remember Prince Abooboo from Gondwana that…

Gmail Extras, Part 13, Confidential Mode

Gmail Extras, Part 13, Confidential Mode

Not that you are a spy or anything like that, but let us say you only want to email someone, or many people, and restrict that email. This email can only be read for a period of time. After that time passes, you do not want them to see it again. Not only that, but…

Microsoft Winmdows Defender

Antivirus Expired, Oh No!

You know it bothers me when the larger, more trustworthy companies play with us. The reasons are usually altruistic; they of course want to help you. Make improvements and most important to them…make some money for their shareholders. With more money, they can add more features and updates to their software, hardware, or whatever. The…

Yubikey Installed into USB port
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More Security with Yubikey

Earlier this year… I made a few suggestions about your password safety. One of the things I recommended, and still do, is LastPast, which you can find here, ghtech.site/lp-howto. Here is a very quick review of LastPass. It allows you to save your login credentials, such as usernames and passwords to the app. You create…

Zoom Security Button

Update on Zoom Bombs

I have an update for you from last week’s comments regarding Zoom Bombing. First, I apologize as I was told by several of you that I did not provide a link to Zoom; although, they found it by googling. They were correct so here you go, Zoom.us. Next, Zoom has been busy this week. They…

Useful Android Apps, Part 4

Last week we looked at Android apps (most also available for iPhones) that help you with research, collecting information, podcasts, players and audiobook readers. Today a few more very useful apps but first a reference back to last week. I used the term “newb” (spelled N  E  W  B) last week and several people emailed…

Is Someone Watching and/or Listening?

In today’s digital world we are threatened daily online. There are viruses to destroy our devices, malware to get our usernames, passwords, other information, ransomware to lock up your files and then charge you lots of money to unlock it again. The same problems could be running on your smartphone. If you are one of…

Chrome Password Manager

  I have stated before that my browser of choice is Google Chrome.  In my opinion, it is “currently” the better browser of the main ones.  At the end of 2017, W3Counter states that the top browsers used are Chrome, (59%) Safari, (15%) Firefox, (9%) Internet Explorer/Edge (8%) and Opera (4%).  Notice the significant gap…

PIN or Password

  From emails, I hear many got new Windows 10 computers for Christmas and it is encouraging you do use a Pin and not a Password to secure it. Is a four-digit pin a good idea to use over your either character password? Microsoft says it is a very good security feature for your computer….