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Can somebody steal a passkey?
New research says malware can reach Google's synced passkeys on Windows. Here is what has to go wrong first, and why a clean computer is the whole defense.
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Breaches, patches, passwords and the practical steps that keep your accounts and devices out of trouble.
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A colon cancer test company got breached. If you took Cologuard, expect a phone call.
Exact Sciences, the Abbott company behind the at-home Cologuard colon cancer test, was breached and 10.9 million email addresses are public. What to do before the notification letter arrives.
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The power company is not calling to cut you off in 30 minutes
A call says your electricity goes off within the hour unless you pay right now. Real shutoffs move by mail, and during dangerous heat the shutoff itself can be against the law.
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Millions of cars carry a Southern California dealer alarm with a security flaw
Most of the 2.2 million affected cars were sold at Southern California dealerships, but resale carried several hundred thousand of them everywhere else. Two minutes tells you whether yours is one.
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You just got scammed. What now?
The hours lost to embarrassment are what turn a bad afternoon into a drained account. Here is the order to work in, and what is actually recoverable.
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Google wants a video of your face. Skip it for now.
Google's new selfie sign-in is optional, stored on Google's servers, and easier to turn on than to undo. Five minutes on your recovery settings does more for you.
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Shark fixed the vacuum flaw. Here's what yours knows about you.
A researcher pulled a live camera feed, a floor plan, and a Wi-Fi password off a Shark robot vacuum he didn't own. Shark hasn't fixed it. Here's what every robot vacuum collects, and what you can do about it.
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That sketchy letter from your hospital might be real
Rochester patients got a real breach notice with the wrong hospital name on it. Many threw it away.
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The Meta AI panic is over, but turn off this lingering setting.
Meta pulled the feature that let anyone make AI images from your public Instagram photos. The setting that fed it is still on by default. Here is how to turn it off.
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Start using a password manager
One password used everywhere is one key to every lock. A password manager fixes that, and starting is easier than you think.
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Check your email's recovery info before you get locked out
Password resets for everything else land in your inbox, which makes your email account the master key. The recovery phone and backup email on that account are how you get back in, and most of us set them years ago.
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Freeze your credit before someone else uses it
Breach notices arrive constantly, and most people answer with credit monitoring. A freeze is the free step that stops new accounts in your name before they open, and almost nobody sets it up.