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How To Keep Your Data Private Online
Whether data gets collected for advertising purposes, or to generate profit by selling data to others, your privacy has a price tag on it. Yet you have some say in all this. You can take several steps that can minimize the data trail that you create by going online. Put ...
How to Keep Your Data & Devices Safe While Traveling
Whether you are traveling for the holidays, summer break, or for business, there are steps you can take to make...
How to Keep Your Celebrations Happening – Virtually & Safely!
2020 has certainly been the year of the ‘new normal’. Our new life in which we stay home and socially...
How to Keep Remote Learning Pod Students Safe Online
The upheaval of 2020 has forced us all to reimagine familiar pathways, and parents are no exception. Cautious about sending...
How to keep our kids safe online – start by talking about it
Whether or not you’re lucky enough to be a parent or grandparent, as adults we should all be concerned about the safety of children online. That’s why, on Safer Internet Day, a day dedicated to promoting the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people, I wanted ...
How to Keep Cybercriminals Out of Your Accounts
Chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, snickerdoodle: Cybercriminals have a sweet tooth just like you. But their favorite type of cookie is...
How To Improve Your Online Security
With the number of cyber threats and breaches dominating the headlines, it can seem like a Herculean task to cover...
How to Identify Three Common Phishing Scams
Time and time again, phishing scams have gotten the best of us. Take the recent W-2 attacks that are everywhere...
How to Identify the Different Forms of Identity Theft
Identity theft is a pervasive threat in today’s digital age, with various forms that can wreak havoc on individuals’ lives....
How to Identify and Protect Yourself From Venmo Scams and Other Cash App Scams
Venmo, quick and convenient. A great way to pay back a friend or split the cost of a meal. Yet...
How to Help Your Teens Stay Safe When They Start Dating Online
In the 80’s, train stations and church groups were the key places to meet boys. And despite the fact I...
How To Help Your Teen Organise a Party Online Without It Becoming a Public Spectacle
Teen Parties and Instagram. If your teen is keen to have a party, I can guarantee you that they will...
How To Help Your Kids Manage Our ‘Culture of Likes’
As a mum of 4 sons, my biggest concerns about the era of social media is the impact of the...
How to Help Your Kids Combat Clickbait Scams
We’ve all fallen for clickbait. Sometimes it’s a juicy headline designed to spark curiosity and drive traffic to a specific website. Other...
How To Help Your Family Protect Their Online Data
Whether you’re standing around the water cooler at work, waiting for your kids at the school gate or sitting around...
How to Help Seniors Spot Online Job Scams
Sadly, online job scams targeting older adults have been an issue for years. However, in a pandemic job market, cybercriminals are working overtime...
How to Help Protect Your Online Privacy
When it comes to protecting your privacy, take a close look at your social media use—because sharing can quickly turn...
How to Help Kids Steer Clear of Digital Drama this School Year
Editor’s note: This is Part II of helping kids manage digital risks this new school year. Read Part I. The...
How to Help Kids Build Strong Digital Habits Before Summer Slips Away
Few seasons are more important to the parent-child bond than summer. The days are longer, fewer activities are crowding the...
How To Get Your Head Around Your Kids’ Online Gaming Life
Let’s be honest – many of us parents aren’t big fans of gaming. In fact, some of us have probably...
How to Get Technology Working for You This Christmas
Harnessing the power of the internet and technology this Christmas may just be what you need to get over this...
How to Get Smarter About Phones and Homework Time
But Moooooom, you can’t take my phone! I can’t finish my homework without it! In that desperate moment, my daughter looked...
How to Get Kids Focused on Their Online Privacy
Kids engage online far differently than adults. Between group chats, social apps, and keeping up with digital trends, their interests, and attention spans constantly shift, which means online privacy...
How To Generate a Strong Password
Have you seen that small pop-up on your phone or laptop that says your password has been compromised? Simple and...
How to Fight Back Against Vishing and Smishing Attacks
With the advent of technology and the widespread use of mobile phones, scam calls and texts have become increasingly common. These annoying and invasive attempts to trick you out of your personal information can be frightening and frustrating. They often come in the form of ‘vishing‘ and ‘smishing‘ attacks. But ...
How to Ensure You Don’t Fall Victim to a Holiday Scam this Festive Season
If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, I have no doubt that he’d revise his famous quote: ‘Nothing can be said...
How To Do A Virus Scan
Whether you think you might have a virus on your computer or devices, or just want to keep them running...
