What the Tech? What to Do If You Want to Share Vacation Photos When You’re Still Away from Home
Find out how easy it is for a burglar to see that you’re not home, simply by spotting the vacation photos you’ve shared.
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What the Tech? Beware of Holiday Shipping Scams
Scammers are working as hard as delivery drivers around the holidays trying to trick you into giving them account information, even credit card numbers.
What the Tech? Should You Lie about Your Age to Protect Your Safety on the Internet?
Hackers and online con artists are more successful in stealing the identity of people who always tell the truth.
What the Tech? Your Facebook Information May Be Posted on a Hacker Forum
A 2+-year-old data breach of Facebook information is back in the news and in terms of data breaches, this one is pretty bad. The Facebook information was taken by hackers two years ago and includes phone numbers, names, birthdates, gender, Facebook ID, and location of over 32 million Facebook users in the United States alone. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s information…
What the Tech? How Misspelling Website Names Can Expose Your Children to Danger
The pandemic has been a difficult time for all of us but for sex predators, it’s opened a big opportunity to lure children into a dark online world. The National Centers for Missing and Exploited Children released its statistics from reports of online child sex exploitation and the results are a staggering and frightening reminder that children are not safe…
What the Tech? More Children Exploited Online During Pandemic
We’ve all been spending more time in front of screens in the past year. Our kids have too. Many times teens and pre-teens are on their devices in their bedrooms, silently connecting with friends and strangers online. National Centers for Missing and Exploited Children spokesperson Callahan Walsh said sex predators have been spending more time online too, looking for children….
What the Tech? Should You Lie on the Internet?
Teenagers have been lying about their age for generations. Younger kids are lying about their birth date now more than ever as they lie to get an account on TikTok, Snapchat, or any of the other social media accounts that require users to be 13 years old or older. Adults should be lying about their age online as well but…
Internet Safety Tips For Parents
As law enforcement is cracking down on internet predators they say they need parents to do more to keep their kids safe on the web. Tuesday afternoon, Lieutenant Brooke Walker with the Internet Crimes Against Children task force shared eye opening statistics and tips on how parents can help keep their children protected against internet predators. Walker pleads that “parents have got…
