Consumer Tips Protect Your Identity Guard your financial information closely. Never give out your bank card, credit card, social security number or financial information unless you initiated the transaction and you trust the merchant. Beware of imposters. Cons may look and sound like a company or bank you do business with, but trusted merchants will [...]

Car keys beside your bed at night Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either [...]

GPS Tracking Devices A portable vehicle GPS tracking device is a unit that uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) to determine the precise location of a vehicle to which it is attached and to record the position of the vehicle at regular intervals. The recorded location data can be stored within the tracking unit, or [...]

Wasp Spray I know some of you own GUNS but this is something to think about... If you don't have a gun, here's a more humane way to wreck someone's evil plans for you. Wasp Spray. On the heels of a break in and beating by two young black youths that left an elderly woman [...]

Social Spyware If you think that Big Brother is watching your every move on the web, guess again. It just got worse. It could be someone in your own home! If you are even slightly paranoid, you need to read what is out there capable of spying on you without your knowledge! Check out this [...]

COMPUTER FILES HELD HOSTAGE The email might look like a routine message from a legitimate company, like a tracking notice from a shipping company. If you click on the hyperlink in the email, Cryptolocker encrypts everything on your hard drive and in your shared folders. When the job is done, you get a "ransom note" [...]

How to remove your house from Google Street View The Huffington Post | By Alexis Kleinman Stars like Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page are asking Google to blur out their houses on Street View, but that's not a feature exclusive to celebrities. You can do it, too. Celebrities -- they're just like us! There's not [...]

How to prevent your  PIN from being stolen!! Don't be a victim.  Be aware.

How emails can be used to track your location and how to stop it by Lisa Vaas on February 27, 2014 A new, free Google Chrome browser extension called Streak lets email senders using Google accounts see when recipients open email. And, oh my, it also lets senders see who, exactly, opened the email, and where the [...]