Spring is finally here and there’s no better way to start the season than with a full clean. But does your Spring cleaning include your digital environment? Here are five easy updates you can do today. 1. Do A Passkey Audit Passkeys have been rolling out since 2022. PayPal first, then Google, Amazon, Microsoft and
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A Roblox age check is now required before anyone can use chat. Your child can either complete a facial age scan, verify with a government ID if that’s available, or have you set their age through parental controls. I’ll explain why in a moment, because the obvious shortcut is the one that causes real harm.
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Short Answer: three things before the term starts. Separate the school password from every other password. Agree where the laptop “sleeps”. And remind them, in advance, that they will never be in trouble for telling you something went wrong. The last one does more work than every parental control on the market combined. Here is
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Short answer: teach three things. Four unconnected words instead of a short complicated password. A different one for the email account, because that is the master key. And never share it, not even with a best friend – which is the rule that actually matters and the one nobody teaches properly. Here is why the
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Short answer, in this order: change the email account password first, then the game or app password, then turn on two-factor authentication on both. After that, check for unfamiliar purchases and linked devices, warn their friends, and expect a follow-up scam offering to “recover” the account. The order matters more than anything else on this
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It will look like winning. A free skin. A giveaway from a “famous” player. A message saying they’ve been specially chosen. The first scam your child meets will be dressed as the best day of their week – because that’s the entire job of a scam, and the people writing them are better at their
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In May, I wrote that cybersecurity training is broken and I was building a game instead. I said it would launch in a few weeks. It’s live. cyberlingz.com. Season 01, in your browser, no download, no installer. You can stop reading now and go play it – honestly, that’s the better version of this blog
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If you’ve ever sat through a corporate cybersecurity awareness module, you know the feeling. A man in a polo shirt explains what a phishing email is. There’s a quiz at the end. You click through it as fast as legally possible. You learn nothing. You forget everything. Three months later, you click a dodgy link
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It’s February already – it feels like January just flew by. How are you doing with your new year’s goals? Perhaps you’re like me and slacking slightly… no judgement! So, I’ve been working on ways to stay on track and motivated simultaneously, and I’ve created my own cyber security vision board! We always hear about
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🔐 Cyber New Year, New You! Hello 2026! Hopefully this will be the year that people stop using 123456 as their password… #justsaying! A new year always feels like you can begin again, like hitting the reset button. New goals, new habits, new opportunities. And unfortunately… new cyber threats 😅 As we already know, cybercriminals
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