The start of the year is when I review my online privacy practices and identify steps to improve cybersecurity of my accounts and online habits.
Which is good timing: January is when dozens of articles and news stories are published about privacy and how to avoid scams as well as information about annual Data Privacy Week events.
Continue reading Online Privacy: Best Practices and Opting Out
Did you know 90% of cyber attacks succeed because of human error?
Or that sensitive personal information in your email or text message can potentially be seen by anyone on the web?
And that delaying security updates to your operating system can expose your personal information?
Continue reading Will You Accept the Quad Cyber Challenge?
For over seven years, I used LastPass for my password manager. While there were other excellent password manager applications, like 1Password and Dashlane, I needed support for Chromebook and multiple platforms.
LastPass was one of the first password managers to provide the support I needed.
And made it available in their free version.
I was such an advocate for LastPass, I promoted it in 3 password managers for Chromebook.
Eventually, Dashlane and 1Password added Chromebook support as well as other features.
But I didn’t feel the need to move to a different password manager. With hundreds of items in my LastPass account, I was happy with the features and support it offered.
Until August 2022, when LastPass announced a security incident.
Continue reading Password Manager Switch to 1Password, Three Months Later