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Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support — Ars Technica Office Depot and its software supplier have to pay $35 million toward refunds.

How Safe Are You Online? 10 Questions to Ask Yourself Unless you can answer "Yes" to these 10 questions, you're not as secure as you think you are.

7 Ways to Avoid Being Hit by Ransomware Ransomware can literally ruin your life. Are you doing enough to avoid losing your personal data and photos to digital extortion?

How to Make Your Wifi Router as Secure as Possible Though more router manufacturers are making routers easier to set up and configure—even via handy little apps instead of annoying web-based interfaces—most people probably don’t tweak many options after purchasing a new router. They log in, change the name and passwords for their wifi networks...

Don't Delete Facebook—Just Be Smarter on Facebook Facebook is kind of a mess right now. And there are plenty of equally messy reaction pieces cajoling you, and everyone you know, to delete your account in a massive middle finger to the web’s prevailing social network. That’s the easy take and, honestly, we’ve experienced this mob response bef...

Ever Wonder How Much Facebook Knows About You? Here’s How to See Facebook has a lot of information about—every post shared, photo uploaded, message sent, item clicked on, and pretty much every other data point you can imagine. And it’s all in the name of serving you better ads and keeping you on Facebook.

How to Deal With Apple's New iPhone-Crashing iOS Bug

World Backup Day Don't be an April Fool. Backup your files and check your restores on March 31st.

7 Lies You Shouldn't Tell the People Fixing Your Computer Long before I wrote blogs on the internet, when I was but a teeny college student with an LJ and a dream, I did tech support. And I saw things. I wasn’t the only one. The people who work tech have heard every excuse and seen every horror your mind can conjure.

Here's Everywhere You Should Enable Two-Factor Authentication Right Now Two-factor authentication is one of the best things you can do to make sure your accounts don't get hacked. We've talked about it a bit before, but here's a list of all the popular services that offer it, and where you should go to turn it on right now.

How to protect yourself while online shopping for the holidays Keep yourself safe during the biggest online shopping days of the year.

Top 10 Secret Features in iOS 10 iOS 10 is packed full of new features, but the best ones are often hidden under the hood. Here are some of our favorite lesser-known new features, the ones Apple isn’t advertising, and you would otherwise have to dig to find.