Holiday Tip #3 – In this Season of Giving, Don’t Give the Criminals Your Money
With so many companies celebrating the season with festive holiday parties, it’s easy to get caught up in this gift card trap set up by ne’er do well criminals out there.

Holiday Tip #2 – Don’t Get Taken for a Ride – Unless it’s a Sleigh Ride
When ordering from e-commerce sites such as Amazon or eBay, you’ll want to check the product descriptions very carefully. Counterfeit goods have been known to make their way onto these sites.

Holiday Tip #1 – Merry Phishmas!
It may be the season of giving, but for cybercriminals, it’s the season of taking...taking advantage of unsuspecting victims. They know that millions of people will be ordering gifts from online retailers and they take advantage of that.

Have you heard of the Aero Shake? It’s a nifty feature that was introduced in Windows 7 and is available on all later versions of the operating system. If you’re the type of person who usually has multiple program windows open on your monitor at the same time, then you will find the Aero Shake very useful.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you’re just being paranoid about your smart home devices listening to your every word. Why? Because they are – all the time. But Amazon has announced a new feature that will allow you to erase the day’s conversations from your Alexa voice assistant.

Apple iPhones come with a useful safety feature that keeps your phone from being opened should it land in the hands of someone else. Unfortunately, that same feature keeps it from being used by anyone you willingly give it to should you decide to sell it, give it to a friend or family member or donate it to charity.

Phishing emails are bogus messages carefully designed to look like a legitimate message (or attached file) from a site or person you trust. Their goal is getting you to willingly give up your login info or unknowingly click a link to install a virus. The best of these emails look uncannily similar to their real-world counterparts, but there are ways to discern a phishing attempt from a legitimate email.

There are some things you need to do first. Here’s a handy checklist from Popsugar to ensure all of your important data doesn’t wind up in the wrong hands.

First things first. Back up your iPhone. There are several places you can back up your data including iCloud, iTunes, your computer or laptop and various online storage options.

Phone scammers are at it again this time claiming to be from Apple support. The latest Apple phone scam involves sending an automated message to potential victims that warns that their iCloud account has been hacked and will be "terminated" if they do not speak with a support representative.

By now we’re sure you’ve heard about the massive cybersecurity breach at Equifax. The bad guys wormed their way into the credit reporting company’s data and managed to obtain personal information on more than 143 million U.S. consumers and an undisclosed number of U.K. and Canadian people.