Social media trends and challenges run from extremely stupid to life threateningly dangerous. Most of them fall into one of these categories: Completely made up and untrue, way overblown, or nothing new – rehashing something foolish that the occasional attention seeker did in an attempt to make headlines.
Students vandalizing schools? Well, that’s been happening for generations, predating any sort of social media by decades.…
The post on Facebook or other social media might start with something like this: “It’s fun to learn odd little things about people.”
Sure, it can be fun to learn and share these things, but also dangerous. If you take the bait, you become a victim of social engineering.
From a cybersecurity standpoint, social engineering is the practice of manipulating people into giving up private information.…
If you get a phone call from someone claiming to be from the government or law enforcement, it’s almost certainly a scam.
One common scam involves a phone call that supposedly comes from the Social Security Administration (SSA) or Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). They may claim that your Social Security number is about to be suspended due to criminal or fraudulent activities.…
If you’re like most people, you probably don’t think much about your LinkedIn profile unless you’re actively looking for a new position. Even some job seekers spend little or no time on their LinkedIn profiles. Either way, this is a big mistake.
No matter how secure you think your job is or how much you like your job, you need to keep your resume up-to-date and your LinkedIn profile active and sparkling.…
After many years of working in technology, I’m spilling the beans on what your IT (information technology) person is probably thinking. Here are 10 things you might want to know about your friendly office computer geek.
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The longer someone has worked in IT, the less likely it is that you can possibly ask the dumbest question she’s ever heard. …
From a seller’s standpoint, the past few weeks might have you referring to ebay as “glitch-bay” or “eBug.”
Buyers probably don’t notice the numerous gremlins affecting eBay – at least, I haven’t seen any complaints from eBay buyers having trouble with the site.
Sellers, however, have been burning up the web with reports of strange happenings.
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Computer security hit the mainstream long ago, with regular media attention on high-profile security breaches and ransomware attacks.
A ransomware attack that hit the city of Atlanta had far-reaching effects on city services such as the court system, police reporting and online payment of water and sewer bills.
Unfortunately, you can’t protect your data that’s in the hands of other companies from incidents like what happened at Equifax.…
Police in California believe that they’ve cracked a decades-old case involving multiple rapes and murders in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Finding their suspect involved more than just the modern ability to extract DNA from crime scene samples. Since the DNA didn’t match anyone in their law enforcement databases, police turned to a free online database of DNA called GEDMATCH.
On GEDMATCH, people researching their genealogy voluntarily post their ancestral DNA profiles to help in building their family trees.…
Google knows a lot about your ancestors if you know how to search for it. These 5 tips will help you get the most out of your Google genealogy research.
A word of caution, though – take care when you find other people’s family trees. It’s best to avoid copying information from other people’s genealogy unless they cite reliable sources. Otherwise, you have no way of verifying that the information is correct.…