News & Reviews:   online security

Have you received any sudden password reset notifications from Instagram lately? If you have, just know that it's safe to ignore because it's an error of some sort. Some of you might wonder whether it was a phishing attempt, but Instagram claimed that it wasn't. Regardless, here are some details you should be aware of.

We know sometimes it's not easy to remember passwords and sometimes it's also not good to have the same passwords across your accounts. Despite that, many people still put in lousy passwords such as "123456" which is still the most common one.

Google recently weighed in online via Mark Risher, Senior Director for Account Security, Identity, and Abuse about the current online security COVID-19 situation. On Google’s side, Google Meet, GMail and Google Play Protect for example have mostly built-in automatic protections but there are a number of checkup tools to see if you’re safe or not and the advice on what to do about it. On our part, we’ve seen a marked increase in such scams.