Your reasons for deleting Instagram can be numerous but there are a few steps and some considerations to make before pressing the big red button. If you’ve been listening to the previous episodes about deleting social media accounts, it should

DP82 Deleting Twitter - Considerations And Steps

Mar 9th, 2020 1m 40s

Unlike Facebook, Twitter is an incredibly straightforward process when deleting your account. Your reasons for deletion can vary but to delete a Twitter account all you need to do is go to your settings and at the bottom of the page there is an

DP81 Deleting Facebook - Considerations And Steps

Mar 6th, 2020 2m 39s

Over the years Facebook has done a lot of questionable things. There’s been the 2016 scandal with Cambridge Analytica and more recently Facebook has admitted that it’s been used as a disinformation tool and allowed people to run fake political

DP80 Do not uninstall old apps - Delete the account also

Mar 4th, 2020 2m 9s

Are you the type of person who has a smartphone crammed with various apps that you don’t use? Or are you the kind of person who will delete apps after you’ve grown bored of them?Whatever the case is, I bet when it comes to delete those ancie

DP79 Why Paranoia about Cybersecurity Works

Mar 2nd, 2020 2m 16s

From having a Virtual Private Network to taking extra measures with two-factor authentication, one might think that I’m a bit paranoid about security. I’m sure it’s pretty obvious since some of my advice in previous episodes has been teetering

DP78 Why Consider Two-Factor Authentication

Feb 28th, 2020 3m 6s

Another security measure I’ve talked about is two-factor authentication. Paired up with a Virtual Private Network (VPN), you’ll have a tighter security than most people. But while there’s been a lot of talk of two factor authentication, this te

DP77 Advantages of Virtual Private Networks

Feb 26th, 2020 2m 27s

One of the best decisions that you can make to protect yourself when browsing the internet is using a VPN: a Virtual Private Network. I’ve mentioned this here and there in some of my strategies but have yet to explain them and just how powerful

DP76 How to Avoid Fraud Scams

Feb 24th, 2020 2m 12s

Even if people are staying on top of fraud, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Over the world, people are losing millions every year from these scams. Fortunately, there are many practical ways for us to work around these scammers.As a gener

DP75 There is Hope for Scam Awareness

Feb 21st, 2020 1m 36s

From my last episode I mentioned the recent jury duty scam and we are handling these scams better. This much is true when you look at some of the statistics from the past two years revolving around scams.What the biggest money maker was for

DP74 Fraudulent Jury Duty Calls

Feb 19th, 2020 2m 12s

The familiar scam now has a new twist. Instead of receiving false emails that you’ve been summoned to court for your “misdeeds”, the calls now focus on the fact that you missed jury duty for an important case.Earlier in November, the Court o

DP73 Cybersecurity Tips for Parents and Kids

Feb 17th, 2020 3m 33s

Cybersecurity is a joint responsibility. It’s like a chain where it’s only as strong as the weakest link in that chain. As such, you want to make an effort in keeping security tight and staying up with trends and potential security threats.W

DP72 Three Best Practices for Cybersecurity Training

Feb 14th, 2020 2m 24s

The purpose of training employees on cybersecurity is to alter habits and behaviors around certain circumstances. When you are training people, keeping them informed is one thing, but there are other tactics we can employ to ensure they get the

DP71 What You Need To Know About Cybersecurity Training

Feb 12th, 2020 2m 29s

It’s easy to convince people to consider cybersecurity training. If people don’t know how to recognize breaches or threats, how can you expect them to avoid them, report them or remove them? They won’t be able to.As I’ve said in the past a l

DP70 How To Educate Employees On Cyber Security

Feb 10th, 2020 3m 19s

With malware attacks and stolen data being a common theme in today’s society, companies today need to put more effort in informing and educating employees. Over the years that viruses have run rampant, one of the most common themes in those sto

DP69 Other Ways to Prevent Ransomware

Feb 7th, 2020 2m 24s

Outside of downloading or buying some ransomware protection, there are other ways for us to be fighting back against ransomware and protecting our data. While a lot of the attacks target small business, we as individuals aren’t immune to scam o

DP68 Ransomware Protection Tools To Consider

Feb 5th, 2020 3m 4s

When people aren’t scamming you through sleazy phone calls, hackers are getting into your computer and locking particular data behind an encryption and demanding money. This type of scam is called Ransomware and is one of the largest problems p

DP67 How to Uncover General Phone Scams

Feb 3rd, 2020 3m 3s

Even though we use our phones a lot for texting these days it doesn’t mean we don’t get telephone scams. Some of them can be nickels and dimes, but some scams can be our entire life savings. Scammers today will do anything to cheat people out o

DP66 How to Detect Tax Scams

Jan 31st, 2020 5m 7s

Last episode, I talked about how to generally identify scams where the person is posing as a government official. However one of the most common scams people experience is calls from the CRA/IRS and that’s a rather unique case.After all, if

DP65 How To Protect Yourself Against “Government” Telemarketing Scams

Jan 29th, 2020 2m 42s

You sometimes hear this in the news around tax time, fraudsters saying they represent the CRA/IRS calling you around tax time. But one other scam that’s been cropping up is one where fraudsters call stating that your Social Insurance Numbers (S

DP64 A Quick Look at Click Fraud

Jan 27th, 2020 4m 27s

One of the biggest issues that PPC (Pay-per-click online ad campaigns) marketers are facing is click fraud. Over the past two decades, there has been a massive marketing revolution. Marketers enjoyed the leap from newspaper and billboards to ra

DP63 Why Bother Getting Alerts From Your Credit Card Company

Jan 24th, 2020 2m 46s

Outside of virtual credit card numbers and chips, there are other precautions credit card companies take to ensure security. This one comes in the form of mobile alerts, ping notifications revolving around all kinds of things.For someone who

DP62 What Are Virtual Credit Card Numbers

Jan 22nd, 2020 2m 8s

We’ve all seen and heard about the chips embedded in our credit and debit cards, but there is another highly secure measure we can take for our credit cards. They’re called virtual credit card numbers.This technology is relatively new but it

DP61 Truth About Credit Card Chips

Jan 20th, 2020 3m 3s

While credit card chips have made credit cards - and debit cards - safer to use, there are still precautions that we need to take when using them. I’m not questioning the effectiveness of these chips on our credit and debit cards. Evidence show

DP60 Petya Ransomware

Jan 17th, 2020 3m 10s

Discovered in 2016, Petya is a family of encrypting ransomware that targeted Microsoft Windows systems. In 2016, we saw variants of this but in June 2017, we experienced a global cyberattack primarily targeting Ukraine.In 2016, the variants

DP59 Wannacry Ransomware

Jan 15th, 2020 2m 45s

Ransomware being the latest threat in history, this form of ransomware brought further attention to the issue at hand. While Gameover ZeuS targeted people, this ransomware cryptoworm attacked en mass.In May 2017, the world had to face off wi