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Cleaning up your social media and passwords: What to trash and what to treasure

Cleaning up your social media and passwords: What to trash and what to treasure

Cleaning up your social media and passwords: What to trash and what to treasure

Give your social media presence a good spring scrubbing, audit your passwords and other easy ways to bring order to your digital chaos

Thomas Uhlemann06 Apr 2023


Staying safe on OnlyFans: The naked truth

Staying safe on OnlyFans: The naked truth

Staying safe on OnlyFans: The naked truth

How content creators and subscribers can embrace the social media platform without (overly) exposing themselves to the potentially toxic brew of NSFW content and privacy threats

Jake Moore and André Lameiras28 Mar 2023


What TikTok knows about you – and what you should know about TikTok

What TikTok knows about you – and what you should know about TikTok

What TikTok knows about you – and what you should know about TikTok

As TikTok CEO attempts to placate U.S. lawmakers, it’s time for us all to think about the wealth of personal information that TikTok and other social media giants collect about us

Roman Cuprik24 Mar 2023


Twitter ends free SMS 2FA: Here’s how you can protect your account now

Twitter ends free SMS 2FA: Here’s how you can protect your account now

Twitter ends free SMS 2FA: Here’s how you can protect your account now

Twitter’s ditching of free text-message authentication doesn’t mean that you should forgo using 2FA. Instead, switch to another – and, indeed, better – 2FA option.

Roman Cuprik20 Mar 2023


Mastodon vs. Twitter: Know the differences

Mastodon vs. Twitter: Know the differences

Mastodon vs. Twitter: Know the differences

Looking for an alternative to Twitter and thinking about joining the folks flocking to Mastodon? Here’s how the two platforms compare to each other.

André Lameiras25 Jan 2023


A step-by-step guide to enjoying LinkedIn safely

A step-by-step guide to enjoying LinkedIn safely

A step-by-step guide to enjoying LinkedIn safely

LinkedIn privacy settings are just as overwhelming as any other social media settings. There’s a lot of menus, a lot buttons to enable, select, accept or reject. To make sure you have control over your information we bring you a step-by-step guide on how to enjoy LinkedIn safely.

André Lameiras18 Aug 2022


Social media in the workplace: Cybersecurity dos and don'ts for employees

Social media in the workplace: Cybersecurity dos and don'ts for employees

Social media in the workplace: Cybersecurity dos and don'ts for employees

Do you often take to social media to broadcast details about your job, employer or coworkers? Think before you share – less may be more.

Amer Owaida17 Jan 2022


WhatsApp announces end-to-end encrypted backups

WhatsApp announces end-to-end encrypted backups

WhatsApp announces end-to-end encrypted backups

The Facebook-owned messaging service plans to roll out the feature to both iOS and Android users in the coming weeks.

Amer Owaida14 Sep 2021


Twitter introduces new feature to automatically block abusive behavior

Twitter introduces new feature to automatically block abusive behavior

Twitter introduces new feature to automatically block abusive behavior

Dubbed Safety Mode, the feature will temporarily block authors of offensive tweets from being able to contact or follow users.

Amer Owaida02 Sep 2021