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A few months ago I did a review of the state-of-the-art 2GiG Go!Control home alarm system. This week I review the Alarm.com Interactive Alarm Monitoring service that is often paired with the 2GiG system.
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When does sharing on Facebook become oversharing, and when does oversharing become a personal safety risk? We attempt to answer both of these questions in this week's featured article: The Dangers of Facebook Oversharing.
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Have you ever gone on vacation and forgot to arm your home security system? Have you ever wanted to check in on your pet while you were away from home?
If you answered yes to either of these questions, you will definitely want to check out our featured article on 5 Must-have Security Apps for iPhone. We'll also take a look at apps that can encrypt phone calls from your iPhone and track your phone if it's lost or stolen.
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Can you spot a phishing scam e-mail from a mile away? Are you a human scam detector?
The focus of this week's featured article is on How to Scam-proof Your Brain. ...
Quick Response or QR codes like the one in the picture above seem to be popping up everywhere these days. They are great for advertisers and marketers because they allow users to obtain product information and website addresses by scanning the multidimensional bar code with their smartphone's camera. Unfortunately hackers and criminals are also using QR codes to trick users into installing malware, or handing over personal information.
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Did you enable the new Facebook Timeline feature yet? The new Timeline lets you, your friends and, depending on your privacy settings, complete strangers flip through your Facebook history like a digital scrapbook. It has a newspaper-like appearance and all is easily navigated. Simply click on the year you are interested in and it jumps to all your old posts for that time frame.
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If you're looking for a last minute dish to make for a New Years party, try making some Spicy Password Crackers. They are both delicious and addictive. I call them password crackers because someone would likely hand over their password just so they could have another one.
...If Santa brought you or your child a new iPod or iPad for Christmas then you will definitely want to enable it's parental controls.
Even if it's yours and not your child's iPod you might want to turn off the in-app purchase feature. One of my family members ended up with a bill for several hundred dollars worth of in-app purchases because this feature wasn't locked down and a child got a hold of the iPod and racked up a bunch of in-app charges. In-app purchases are how many "Freemium" app developers make their money. They make the game free to download but charge for additional content. Even kids that aren't old enough to read can end up buying things in the app without anyone knowing it until they get the bill.
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We've all heard about the British News International scandal involving reporters allegedly hacking into voicemail accounts to illegally obtain information. The big question how did they do it? We'll attempt to answer that question in this week's featured article: Voicemail Hacking Explained.
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Have you ditched Microsoft's Internet Explorer? Was Google's Chrome not shiny enough for you? If your browser of choice is Mozilla's Firefox, then we've got some security tips and tools that you might want to check out on our Firefox Security...
