How To Guides and Tutorials

Whether you’re working, banking, shopping, or just streaming a few shows online, these how-to guides and tutorials will ensure you’re more secure from hacks, attacks, and prying eyes. Check out our internet safety tips to help you improve your online habits and stay secure online.

Ghost Tapping: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Stay Safe

Contactless payments make everyday purchases fast and easy. Yet with that convenience comes a risk: ghost tapping. In crowded spaces or rushed moments, a scammer could trigger a small tap-to-pay charge or push...

Nov 19, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Learn How to Spot a Phishy Email and Stay Safe

This blog post was written by Bruce Snell. One piece of advice I always give (after update,...

Dec 13, 2015 | 6 MIN READ

How to Report an Online Scam

According to The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3, over 269,000 online scams were reported in 2014. IC3...

Dec 08, 2015 | 3 MIN READ

10 Tips to Rein In Excessive Texting

Last month’s phone bill confirms it: Houston, we’ve got a problem. Your teen sent 4,600 texts and...

Nov 03, 2015 | 4 MIN READ

10 Tips to Help Boost Your Teen’s Selfie Safety IQ

More people accidentally die each year while taking selfies than die from shark attacks. Sounds like an...

Oct 06, 2015 | 3 MIN READ

How to Stop Sharing Your Location Information

The Internet helps us connect and share with people around the world, but there are some people...

Sep 14, 2015 | 3 MIN READ

6 Tips for Protecting Your Social Media Accounts

10 years ago, many of us were hearing about social media for the first time. Now, social...

Apr 20, 2015 | 3 MIN READ

Five Ways the Internet of Things Can Put Your Security at Risk

Sometimes a new technology comes along that’s so promising, so revolutionary, that, over time, future citizens consider...

Mar 01, 2015 | 4 MIN READ

7 Tips to Help Your Teen Avoid Conflict in Group Texts

photo/groupme.com If you’ve ever had a conversation over email or text take a sudden nosedive due to...

Feb 24, 2015 | 6 MIN READ

How to Remove Unwanted Photos of Your Child Online

There’s a chance you may skip this blog post thinking to yourself: This will never happen to my...

Feb 17, 2015 | 4 MIN READ

7 Tips to Boost Your Family Goal Setting for 2015

To catch a vision for your family in the year ahead first requires a brief look back....

Dec 30, 2014 | 4 MIN READ

Should You Use Near-Field Communications?

Have you ever wondered what kind of superpower you’d have? I’ve always wanted to send messages and...

Dec 15, 2014 | 3 MIN READ

Doxxing, The Internet and How You Can Lock Down Your Data

There exists, in this world of ours, a term describing the public release of a person’s identity...

Dec 09, 2014 | 4 MIN READ

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