Your Security Begins with Strong Passwords If we had a dollar for every email, we’ve received that says something like “I’ve been hacked!” we would have hundreds -maybe thousands – of dollars. Yep! We have preached and preached about using a password manager like LastPass (or pick any good password manager) to create and manage passwords. But… Read More »
What to Do if You Don’t Want to Use a Password on Windows 10 We highly recommend that you always use a password on Windows 10. If you don’t want to use a password, then we recommend that you use a PIN. But we weren’t born yesterday, and we know many of you don’t want to… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly – Issue #881 – Available Online Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly, Issue #881, was sent to all our subscribers on Friday, August 28, 2020, at approximately 10:20 AM, Eastern Daylight Time (USA). If you didn’t receive our latest newsletter, it’s because your ISP didn’t deliver it… or it’s in your spam folder. We suggest, if… Read More »
Google’s Password Checkup Extension for Chrome Rides into the Sunset If you have installed the Password Checkup Extension for Google Chrome, don’t be surprised when the following message pops up when you open Chrome. The message explains it all, but to sum it up, Password Checkup will be part of Chrome and the extension will stop… Read More »
You’re Not the Target, You’re Just a Victim Most everyone is afraid of having their computer hacked. But it’s very unlikely that your PC will ever be hacked. If I had a dollar for every person who wrote to us saying they have been hacked, I’d have at least $5000 in my pocket by now. But… Read More »
Three Things You Can Do Right Now to Secure Your Google Account If you use Gmail, you probably have all kinds of personal information stored in your Google account and Gmail. Did you know that regardless of how you access your Gmail, a copy of all your emails is stored in the All Mail folder? So… Read More »