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If you use free WiFi networks at Starbucks coffee shops listen up!
AT&T provides the hotspot and buried in the Terms and Conditions is the following sentence: “If you have a VPN, AT&T recommends that you connect through it for optimum security.”
Read on for more details.
Another new privacy bombshell came across the wires recently: not only is the U.S. government spying on your emails, they are also spying on the letters you send via the U.S. Postal Service.
Seriously? Yeah, seriously. And apparently they’ve been doing it for a while.
Recently, RouteHappy, a flight search site that helps users determine which flights have wifi on them, published some interesting facts about the current state of wifi on planes. If you are a frequent flyer, you might be interested to know where we are now with wifi access on planes, and where we are headed.
Long story short: more and more airlines are offering in-flight wifi and this trend is increasing exponentially. Read on for some more details about flying and wifi and how to keep your communications secure in the sky.
Identity Theft Resource Center CEO, Eva Velasquez, offers up some tried and true tips on how to keep your credit cards secure while online shopping. These are the same tips she taught her children and she is encouraging them and you to pass them on.
Recently, it has come to light that the National Security Agency and the FBI have been spying on U.S. citizens, logging our phone calls, storing all of our emails in huge databases for possible future use, and working with Silicon Valley companies to track our online behavior.
While this has bothered some of us, others have responded with a mere shrug of the shoulders.
“So what if the government is spying on us? I have nothing to hide anyway so why does it matter? Anyway, if they want to listen to my boring phone calls with my mom, more power to them.”
If we are being honest with ourselves, there’s probably a part in all of us that agrees with this view. Perhaps it’s because we live in an online world dominated by social media. We just assume that we have very little privacy anymore and there’s nothing we can do about it, so why worry about it?
Read on to find out why you DO need to worry!
The public outcry that the National Security Agency has been spying on Americans has been enormous. At this point, we don’t know the exact scope and breadth of the NSA’s privacy intrusions.
Where will these revelations about the NSA take the wider online culture? Read on to find out how we’re beginning to see how much personal information about us is being used (and potentially abused) by both corporations and our own government.
So you are headed to the Bahamas next week and you want to make sure everyone knows how much fun you are having. However, you may want to think twice before posting that picture of you relaxing in the sun on a white sand beach. There are a few reasons you may want to refrain from immediately posting every wondrous moment of your hard-earned vacation.
While Facebook may be increasing its revenue dollars by allowing companies to target ads at you, is it the right thing for them to use companies that freely sell your personal information?
Data brokers compile information about you, such as your age, race, sex, weight, height, marital status, education level, political beliefs, buying habits, household health, vacation dreams, and more. It’s a very lucrative business. Read more to find out how your personal, sensitive, and private information is being shared.
While there is no way to completely prevent identity theft from happening to you, there are many ways you can minimize your risk. Keeping this goal in mind, the Identity Theft Resource Center developed these 10 ID Theft Protection Tips to help you protect yourself from identity theft.
Read on to discover what steps you can take to step your identity safe.
Earlier this month, PRIVATE WiFi and The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) co-hosted the monthly ID Theft Twitter Chat. The ITRC hosts these monthly events in an effort to engage consumers in discussion about the issues surrounding identity theft. As the ITRC believes that cyber security is an important part of protecting from identity theft, the issue of public WiFi is of of utmost importance. Many of the participants felt as strongly about the risks of WiFi usage and there was a lot of great input.
Read on to discover the highlights of the chat.
When WiFi users complain about getting hacked on their home networks, it’s often the result of their own careless wireless behavior — everything from using simple passwords to outdated security. But a new study reveals that home WiFi users aren’t the only ones responsible for some very serious wireless security problems. Thirteen of the most popular home and small office routers have critical security vulnerabilities that could create major risks to users — risks that are out of their control.
Find out which routers you should watch out for and what you can do to protect your online security.
Public WiFi use is growing, but are you aware of the dangers? During Thursday, May 2’s #IDTheftChat, co-hosted by the Identity Theft Resource Center (@ITRCSD) and Private WiFi (@privatewifi), we will explain that public WiFi is not secure and how using public WiFi can lead to identity theft. Please join us for May’s edition of identity theft twitter chat!
