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Securing Your Home Wi-Fi: What Actually Matters
Skip the firewall rules and VLANs. Five settings actually secure your home Wi-Fi, starting with the admin password you never changed.
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How to Freeze Your Credit (and Why You Should Do It Today)
Freezing your credit blocks new accounts opened in your name. Free, about fifteen minutes across all three bureaus — here’s how to freeze your credit at each.
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Is “Sign In With Google” Safe? What It Actually Shares
Sign in with Google is safer than a reused password and it creates two problems of its own. Here is what it shares and when to use something else.
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How to Clean Up Old Accounts You No Longer Use
Dormant accounts hold old data behind old passwords with no 2FA, which makes them easy targets. How to clean up old accounts in the right order.
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What Data Your Phone Is Sending Right Now
Your phone talks to servers constantly. Here’s the data your phone is sending, even while it sits idle, and what you can turn off.
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How to Make Your Backups Actually Work
Most backups fail when they’re needed. The 3-2-1 rule is how you make your backups actually work, and testing is the step everyone skips.
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How to Spot a Phishing Email Before You Click
Modern phishing emails look real, so the tells are subtle. Five signals that help you spot a phishing email, starting with the sender address.
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The Right Way to Share Passwords With Family
Texting a password is the common way to share passwords with family, and the worst one. Shared vaults in a password manager are safer once set up.
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What to Do If Your Phone Gets Stolen
What you can do after your phone gets stolen depends almost entirely on what you set up before. Remote lock first, then accounts, carrier, police report.
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How to Lock Down Your Google Account in 15 Minutes
Your Google account is the recovery path for dozens of other services. Here’s how to lock down your Google account in fifteen minutes.