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If you find an Apple AirTag that belongs to someone else, learn how to help reunite the lost items with their owner using an iOS or Android device–or, how to prevent the device from tracking you. Image: Sarah Tew/CNET Apple’s AirTag is an easy to use device to track items through the Find My app on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or iCloud account using the iOS network of devices. This little device is handy to…

The FBI is going to share compromised passwords discovered during investigations with Have I Been Pwned (HIBP)’s ‘Pwned Passwords’ service. The FBI will share compromised passwords that were discovered during investigations with the ‘Pwned Passwords‘ service implemented by the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). The Pwned Passwords service allows users to search for known compromised passwords and discover how many times they have been found in past data breaches. “And so, the…

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. The average cost of cloud account compromises reached $6.2 million over a 12-month period, Proofpoint, a cybersecurity and compliance company, said in its latest The Cost of Cloud Compromise and Shadow IT report. Above: Very little corporate data in the cloud is controlled by IT. Image Credit: Proofpoint In a survey of 600 IT and IT security professionals in the U.S., 75% of respondents said…

It’s a question I get several times a year from anxious parents, either via a direct message, an email or even in line at the grocery store. It goes something like this: “What’s the one thing you wish you’d done better when monitoring your kids’ technology?”  Both of my kids are now young adults, and together, we survived a handful of digital mishaps. So, I tend to have a few answers ready. I’ll go into one of those answers in this post, and here it is: I’d physically pick up their phone more often and ask questions about the apps I didn’t recognize.   And here’s why.   There are the…

It’s a question I get several times a year from anxious parents, either via a direct message, an email or even in line at the grocery store. It goes something like this: “What’s the one thing you wish you’d done better when monitoring your kids’ technology?”  Both of my kids are now young adults, and together, we survived a handful of digital mishaps. So, I tend to have a few answers ready. I’ll go into one of those answers in this post, and here it is: I’d physically pick up their phone more often and ask questions about the apps I didn’t recognize.   And here’s why.   There are the…