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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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Is DuckDuckGo Safe? A Complete Privacy and Security Breakdown
If you’ve never used one before, choosing a privacy-focused search engine or browser can be a little daunting. How do you know your data will be any better protected than it is with the big players? Learn what DuckDuckGo does with your search and personal data, how its browser and AI chat protections actually work,… Read more
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PIA Expands VPN Network With 10 New Locations Across 3 Regions
Two weeks ago, we added 15 new server locations to the PIA network. Today, we’re adding 10 more new server locations across the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific. That’s 25 new locations in under a month, extending our reach to locations across countries and territories in total. Where You Can Now… 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