Common Types of Cyberattacks and How to Avoid Them
There are a few common types of cyberattacks. Cybercrime is proving an increasingly costly drain on the global economy. Research indicates that cyberattacks could cost companies globally about $5.2 trillion over the next five years—that’s more than a trillion dollars a year. Unfortunately, when there’s that much money at stake, there’s going to be a […]
How To Keep Your Personal Information Private When Using Social Media
There are likely millions of people who practice safe, common sense, shrewd personal security: We never use “password” for our password, we only use secure websites for purchases, and we don’t click on strange links. Perhaps we even take advantage of data broker opt-outs and remove personal information from Google. Subsequently, we then log into […]
How to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft
It’s undoubtedly no surprise to anyone reading this, but identity theft is still a huge problem. It victimizes millions of people a year and takes a good amount of time and money to clear up. Collectively, identity theft costs both consumers and businesses billions. That means it’s in everyone’s best interest to learn how to […]
DeleteMe’s Best Practices for Minimizing Robocalls
“What’s the best way to stop robocalls?” “What’s the best way for minimizing robocalls?” At DeleteMe, we get these questions all the time. Well, truthfully, one of the best ways to reduce the number of spam calls and robocalls you receive is to use DeleteMe. Beyond using DeleteMe, there’s a number of different things that […]
How to Avoid Phishing Scams
With great convenience, and virtually fathomless access to information, entertainment, and ecommerce, comes great risks. That’s the trade-off that all of us make when we use the internet. It’s a significantly greater risk when we use the internet for email and any kind of ecommerce. Doing so opens us up to attempted hacks, identity thieving […]
DeleteMe’s Best Practices for Mobile Device Security
Until fairly recently, there was a disconnect between the way many users treated security of personal computers versus their portable devices. PC’s receive antivirus applications, firewalls, layers of advanced network permissions, and many users have developed relatively sophisticated attitudes towards email-communications, encrypting sensitive attachments, and becoming more cognizant of phishing techniques. Mobile devices, on the […]
Why You Should Care About Your Online Reputation and How to Protect It
The internet is a massive marketplace of products, services, and ideas. Unfortunately, the sheer mass of all three on the internet means that inevitably, some of them are going to be regrettable. The problem for consumers is distinguishing between the products, services, and ideas that are useful and trustworthy, and those that aren’t. The problem […]
DeleteMe’s Best Practices for Securing Social Media
For privacy-minded people, securing social media accounts present a tricky trade-off between maintaining online relationships with friends and family, customers and colleagues, while controlling what personal information is available to the wider world. Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and other social media continue to be some of the most-frequent targets of major data-piracy. And yet using these […]
The Sneaky Ways Data Brokers Gather Information About You
The data broker industry is somewhat of an anomaly in that they want you to know as little about the industry as possible. Despite being the arbiters of a personal information marketplace worth billions, they want as little publicity as possible, and they make it extremely difficult to remove personal information from Google. There’s a […]
DeleteMe’s Best Practices for Minimizing Junk Mail
With a majority of Americans now doing their utility billing and banking online, the US Postal Service is now primarily in the business of distributing direct-marketing, or ‘Junk Mail’. For people wanting to minimize their volume of unsolicited mail, there are fortunately plenty of options that are reasonably effective, compared to the scourge of Robocalls […]
