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Geek Squad Email Scam: How to Spot It and What to Do
In 2025, the Geek Squad scam is still around and it’s more convincing than ever. The official-looking messages, familiar branding, and just enough personal detail can even fool the careful. To be clear: Geek Squad is Best Buy’s legitimate tech support service, but scammers exploit its good reputation to deceive their victims. In this guide,… Read more
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ChatGPT and Privacy: Everything You Need to Know in 2026
ChatGPT has serious privacy issues. It can collect and process highly sensitive details and associate it with your email and phone number. Read more
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What Is an Evil Twin Attack and How Can You Spot One?
Public Wi-Fi can be convenient, but it can also expose you to risks such as evil twin attacks, where cybercriminals set up a deceptive Wi-Fi network in the hopes that users will connect to the fake Wi-Fi hotspot instead. This can be hard to spot in busy public places, especially if the network has a… Read more
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What Is a Block Cipher & How Does It Work?
Block ciphers help protect everything from files on your device to data moving across the internet. They turn readable information into encrypted data that should be useless to anyone who doesn’t have the right key. The cipher itself works on fixed-size pieces of data and is only one part of that process. A mode of… Read more
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Snapchat Scams: Types, Warning Signs, and How to Stay Safe
A Snapchat scam can look like a normal chat right up until someone asks you for money, a login code, or private information. The conversation can feel genuine, which is what makes these scams hard to catch early. Though it’s impossible for this guide to cover every conceivable scenario, we’ll break down how Snapchat scams… Read more
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PIA Adds 15 VPN Server Locations, Bringing the Total to 104 Countries and Territories
We’ve added 15 server locations to the PIA VPN network, bringing our total to 170 locations across 104 countries and territories (up from 91 countries). You don’t need to do anything to get them: they appear in every PIA app automatically. New Locations, New Possibilities The expansion extends PIA’s coverage to 13 new countries and… Read more
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Is Telegram Safe to Use and Should You Trust It?
You may use Telegram to follow channels, participate in groups, share files, or chat privately with friends. But how much of that activity is actually private? Can other people access your messages, and does Telegram protect you from hackers, scams, and data leaks? Telegram has security and privacy features, but it doesn’t protect every type… Read more
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What Is Swatting? Definition, Dangers, and How to Protect Yourself
It might sound like something you’d do to a fly that’s buzzing around your kitchen while you’re cooking dinner, but swatting is actually a serious cybercrime. So, what is swatting, exactly? It’s the process of tricking emergency responders into believing a serious crime is unfolding at someone else’s address, usually to harass or intimidate them.… Read more