Protecting yourself online is a seemingly endless task, but that doesn’t mean you should throw in the towel. This week, we’re looking at how to stay safe online and avoid scams, malware, and everything in between.
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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and has been since 2004 when then U.S. President George W. Bush and the 108th United States Congress declared the month such in acknowledgment of the increasing threat cyber attacks, online scams, and such posed to people around the world.
Helping our readers increase their digital security through pragmatic best-practice behaviors and changes is not just a once-a-year thing here at How-To Geek but part of our enduring mission and duty to our readers. Despite such matters being an everyday commitment around here, it’s nice to have a reason to focus further on such an important topic. If any sort of guide is important to us, it’s certainly the guides that help our readers avoid identity theft, damage devices and hardware, and other negative outcomes that result from compromised passwords, malware exposure, and so on.
So, with that in mind, this week, as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re focusing on practical tips and tricks you can use to keep your devices secure, your online accounts as locked down as possible, and other ways to make life in the 21st century—where data leaks, cyber-attacks, and malware are practically ubiquitous—less of a hassle.
You can continue to visit our homepage daily and check out our newsletter to get all the best tips and tricks. You can also visit our Cybersecurity Week 2023 hub for the latest daily offerings. However you dig into the Cybersecurity Week coverage, though, we hope you enjoy the articles and find more than a few things you can immediately apply to your life to shore up your digital life and stay safe.