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Why Do You Need a VPN? VPNs keep your online activity private by encrypting your traffic and masking your IP address. This prevents your internet service provider (ISP) and others from tracking what you do online. VPNs also help protect your digital privacy. By hiding your true IP address, VPNs prevent companies and governments from…
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The media loves to sensationalize romance fraud and scams. Unfortunately, that leads to a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings. Unless we’ve been a victim of one of these scams, many of us believe inaccurate or completely false things about them. And if we become victims, we discover that these misconceptions make finding support incredibly challenging.…
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We’ve all experienced annoying viral requests that seem to crop out of nowhere on Facebook. The kid you sat next to in 8th grade Spanish sends you a friend request, and he seems innocuous enough, but you haven’t spoken to him in decades. Within days, you’re flooded by his posts asking his page visitors for…
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If you’re unfamiliar with number systems like binary and hexadecimal, stay tuned. Understanding how these systems work is key to grasping many technical concepts. And if you are curious about how to convert IP addresses, this article provides a beginner-friendly explanation of decimal, binary, and hexadecimal numerals. Before you can start converting IP addresses, it’s…
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In the early rise of the online age, website and Internet developers were flying blind. The amazing world of possibilities the Internet opened needed regulations, but the tech gurus behind its evolution didn’t want to stifle creativity and free speech, and wanted to ensure the world wide web was free and open to all. In…
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As we collectively increase our social media interactions with strangers, more and more of us may create fictional online identities. For those with benevolent intentions, fake identities can allow us freedom to be ourselves, protect our personal information, and express our thoughts and beliefs on hot-button social issues. However, malevolent users may use bogus identities…
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Whereas a successful salesperson is good at selling a product, a successful con artist is good at selling the scam. At the heart of that is the singular skill that really makes a scammer and a salesperson equally successful.
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It’s easy to stereotype the kind of people you think would fall for a scam. But scammers know what they’re doing – and what they’re doing is using basic human emotions and desires against us. The principles of psychology behind scams means that all of us are vulnerable. When scammers are exploiting our own brains,…
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