What The Tech: How the elderly can protect themselves from Facebook scammers
During Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is introducing new tools to help older adults recognize and avoid scams.
What The Tech
What The Tech: How kids are hiding secret messages to their friends
Here’s how it works: You type a message in Google Docs, email, or another document program and then change the color of the font to white on a white background. Then poof, it disappears. Students have been caught to sneak notes into homework assignments.
What The Tech: How cyber criminals are tricking artificial intelligence
The proper term for this is “AI prompt injection attacks”. What it means is that when you use an AI-powered browser, cyber criminals can secretly add malicious instructions to websites or documents that the AI reads.
What the Tech: Why you still need a reliable TV antenna
A typical TV antenna might about the same as a month of streaming, so why do you need one?
What The Tech App of the Day: Roboform
It’s been around for about 20 years, longer than some people have been online. Once you set it up and sign in, RoboForm stores all of your passwords behind just one master password, the only one you need to remember.
What The Tech: How to spot fake Facebook and Instragram accounts
Not every digital creator is a scammer, but it’s safe to assume that most scammers are digital
creators.
What The Tech: How to protect your Facebook from scammers
When a stranger sends you a friend request, you ignore it as you should. But what most people don’t know is that even if you decline or ignore it, that person is still following you. That is how scams start.
What The Tech: Protecting your home on Google Street View
Of course, you wouldn’t walk around town handing pictures of your house to strangers. But if someone finds your address online, with just a couple of clicks they can see your home, and everything sitting in the driveway.
What The Tech: Protecting yourself from the worst scams
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, a time the Department of Homeland Security warns Americans about the most dangerous scams threatening your money, privacy, and peace of mind.
What The Tech App of the Day: Partiful
Holiday party season is just around the corner. And if you’ve ever used Facebook events, texts, or emails, you may want a better option. Evites are definitely the way to go.
