Category: Security Software and Services

Antivirus is non-negotiable for a PC. And while Windows’s built-in security is good, you can further increase your protection with an independent security suite—like Bitdefender, which is on sale in the PCWorld…

Earlier this month, security guru Troy Hunt added a staggering two billion unique email addresses and 1.3 billion unique passwords to his Have I Been Pwned and Pwned Passwords databases. Aggregated by…

If you’re reading PCWorld, you probably know that it’s important to keep your PC updated so that security issues are patched. And you probably know the same is true for your phone,…

“Digital fingerprinting” is a way for advertisers and other, even less scrupulous people (if there is such a thing) to track you online. Going far beyond simple cookies, these systems can track…

If you’ve been watching the non-technology news for the last couple of weeks… well first of all, I’m sorry. But you might have noticed that one of the most brazen robberies in…

I talk a lot about passkeys these days, and for good reason—bad actors have only upped their pace and intensity of attacks. If they’re not hacking websites to filch data, they’re grabbing…

For one reason or another, we’ve all become very familiar with Zoom calls in recent years. Although we thankfully don’t need to use them quite as much as we used to, they’re…

I spend a lot of time talking about two-factor authentication. Often I wonder if people have a real sense of its usefulness. Yeah, it helps keep hackers out of your accounts if…