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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, May 10, 2024
• Find out if your phone’s apps have morphed into malware
• How to enable Two-Factor Authentication on your X account
• Q&A: Where can I get some incandescent light bulbs?
• Video: Chelsea and Grace Constable performing “Jerry’s Breakdown”
• May’s Tech Tips Giveaway: TP-Link Deco AXE4900 Tri-Band WiFi 6E Mesh WiFi System
It seems like there’s a cell phone in virtually every pocket these days, and having one in yours makes it easy to lock down access to many of your online accounts using a method known as Two-Factor Authentication.
The concept behind Two-Factor Authentication is simple, and it’s extremely effective at keeping miscreants from logging into your account.
This is how it works: [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Tuesday, August 1, 2023
• How to find out how much of your phone’s storage is being used
• Why you should enable Two-Factor Authentication on absolutely everything
• Has your blog’s email server been ‘blacklisted’? Find out right now.
• The awesome value of time
The long chain of data breaches that have been in the news of late should be a huge wake-up call for everyone who is concerned with their online security.
It seems that every day or two we hear that another online service has been hacked and their customers’ personal information stolen.
Short of simply closing all of your online accounts, there’s really nothing you can do to prevent the services you use from getting hacked since the security of their servers and software is entirely out of your control.
There are a couple of things you can do however to limit a successful hacking attack’s effects on your own life: [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Saturday, July 22, 2023
• Enable Two-Factor Authentication on your Google account
• Q&A: Are 5G phones safe to use?
• Mastering MySQL with UniDAC: A deep dive into database connectivity
• ‘I Saw The Light’ is one of the most popular gospel songs of all time. It might surprise you to learn who wrote it.