Quick Response codes, or QR Codes, have been part of our mobile-friendly world since 1994. Typically we see these scannable coded images on advertisements, giving us a quick way to access more information from our mobile device without typing an entire URL or website address on our tiny keyboard. QR codes became even more popular, […]
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New Holiday Device Headaches
If you or someone in your family is getting a new device this holiday season, consider taking time during the setup process to add in additional security measures and parental controls where available. Setting up accounts and services correctly now will help you avoid headaches in the future (when a password was not saved and […]
Summer Travels: Beware of Card Skimmers
Summer often brings exciting travel destinations and activities, so it’s easy to overlook small details and move quickly through routine transactions. Unfortunately, these are also prime opportunities for card skimmers to steal your data. Card skimmers are physical devices installed inline with existing payment terminals. Card skimmers can be installed on ATMs, gas pumps, car […]
Facebook Tagging Privacy
If you have a facebook account and spend any time scrolling through your feed, you have likely seen one of your friends/contacts tagged in a scammy post. The posts I see most frequently are diet posts: someone posts that they lost an unbelievable amount of weight or drastically improved their health and wellbeing, and other […]
Machine Learning in Real Life
We had a 10U baseball tournament over the weekend for our youngest son, and our middle son (15) was actually able to attend and watch his younger brother. Normally the older kids have their own activities and don’t make many weekend baseball games. As the first game progressed, I noticed that our middle son was […]