In less than two weeks, the largest sporting event in the world will begin: The FIFA World Cup 2022. According to official data, the last time it took place (in Russia during 2018), the tournament was followed by nearly 3.6 billion people, and…
Cyber threats are constant and the third quarter of 2022 was no exception. The Q3 Threat Report from Avast Threat Labs found an increase in PC adware activity, continued chaos caused by cyber criminal gangs, and an increase in ransomware in ce…
The sandwich generation — which is people in their 30s and 40s who are both raising their own children and caring for aging parents — has always had a lot on its plate. And, these days, there’s a relatively new addition to the party: managing …
Parenting in the 2020s means lots of passwords. You have school devices. You have soccer team logins. You have Roblox and Minecraft and YouTube. Sometimes it feels like your kids have more accounts than you do! Which means it’s very, very temp…
There’s a new social media app in town and it’s making waves. BeReal — which launched in 2020 but didn’t really start gaining traction until midway through 2022 — encourages people to step away from the curation and filtering of other social m…
I recently got a Facebook message that shook me. It was from an old roommate who I hadn’t spoken to in about 10 years. She told me she’d been in an abusive relationship and was trying to set up a GoFundMe to help her get away from her boyfrien…
We’ve recently conducted research that shows that over half of UK parents believe that their child is more digitally literate than them, with 55% expressing concern about this. Parents’ main concerns are about their children spending money wit…
When you picture someone getting scammed online, who do you picture? Maybe a grandparent, like Phyllis, who was robbed of $20,000 via a tech support scam. And while elderly people are absolutely at risk of being targeted by scammers, a recent …
When you hear the word “con man,” you probably picture someone like Leonardo DiCaprio playing famed scammer Frank Abganale Jr. in the movie Catch Me If You Can. He’s smart. He’s debonair. He’s charming. He might be a sociopath, but for some re…
Today’s zeitgeist is thick with true crime documentaries. People just cannot get enough of them. Why is that? Maybe we like to marvel at the loathsome, evil plans sociopaths can think up. Maybe we want to learn so that particular scam never ha…