Mobile Security

With its built-in location services, your smartphone can point you to plenty of places. To the location of your vacation rental. To the quickest route around a traffic jam. And to a tasty burger. It’s a tremendous convenience. Yet, there’s a flip side. Your smartphone also tracks your location. Getting to know how your phone tracks you and how you can limit that tracking can make you far more private online. The basic privacy issue…

All day long, it’s almost always within arm’s reach. Your smartphone. And we rely on it plenty. That makes securing your phone so important. Good thing that some of the best tips for making your phone safer are also some of the easiest. Here’s a quick rundown: Ten quick tips for mobile security 1. Lock your phone. Locking your phone is one of the most basic smartphone security measures you can take. Trouble is, few…

Mobile banking is highly secure — when you take a few straightforward steps, it becomes even safer. And those steps only take minutes, leaving you and your finances far more secure than before. Use strong passwords. Start here. Strong and unique passwords for each of your accounts form your first line of defense. However, one thing that can be a headache is the number of passwords we have to juggle — a number that seems…

Do you? I do and I’ve been doing it since I said “I do.” And if you are married or at least in a committed lifelong relationship, knowing each other’s passwords is probably expected. Today, sharing passwords has become a sign of commitment, a signal of love and devotion, like a varsity sweater or friendship ring. But what’s happens when the relationship goes sour (with a divorce rate of 50% to back me up here)?…