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Technical Tuesday: How To Stay Safe On Public Wi-Fi
Many of us today are surrounded by free or public Wi-Fi. Burt that is not the necessarily a good thing. In our modern day society we are all attached to our phones/ Mobile devices and basically our entire lives are on them. Meaning that our banking information our bill pay systems and our private emails/ text are all right there. Personally, I try to never use public Wi-Fi if its at all possible. There are a few reasons for this But for the purpose of the post I am going to state the top 3 dangers and also give you some options on how to stay safe. The first on…
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Technical Tuesday: What is Juice Jacking and How do you stop it.
Are you a person who travels a lot or even a little? If so then please for your own safety keep reading. Juice Jacking is when you plug your phone into a public charging station using either the cord provided to you or the cord that you brought with you. Either way, the public charging station then installs a small piece of malware on your phone and BAMM you are hacked. Now, this hacking is not the fault of the company that provided you the charging station (they were just trying to be nice). This hacking is done by a person who is probably miles away and is lurking on…
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Technical Tuesday: 5 Steps To Take When You Think You Have Been Hacked.
A long time ago… I was personally hacked. This person got ahold of one of my passwords and he/she used it to access a lot of information. I got mad. Why would someone do this? What did I do that allowed them to gain that information? How could I stop this in the Future? So, I started reading every data policy I encountered… Hence the extensive knowledge that led to What do our Data Policies really say? This also made me extremely aware of my bank accounts and transactions and any vulnerable information. Believe me there is a lot out there. In fact, one of the biggest security flaws in…
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Book Review- Shadow Rising (Shadow Wars Book 1)
There are two types of magicals - the Sun class, and the Moon class. After the vicious Shadow War a hundred years before, the classes were separated. Sun magicals agreed to roam the daylight hours, and let the Moon magicals walk the streets at night.
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Technical Tuesday: Driving with Google
Google maps is a great application and one that pretty much everyone already has on their phone. But did you know that most people don’t really use it? I don’t know why… It’s honestly pretty cool to use. My favorite thing about Google Maps is the Explore Nearby. I love to use it when I am in a new town or just want to see something new in my own city. It gives your events and also let’s you use the Google Search by just selecting a button that’s relevant to what your looking for. You can also add in places that you travel to often and check the commute…
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Make Money When Blogging
So a while ago I wrote a post (Trying To Find Information Frustrated) This post was about my search to find information on how to make money blogging. In my search I found a few websites that told me, I could make money doing really only one thing… But they never told me what that one thing was. I asked questions on how to do this and I became even more determined to actually succeed in this. I like my full time with benefits job and don’t hate my life or anything like that. I just want to make some extra cash. So after like what felt like 20 years…
