Recently, I began using VPNs again. I've spent the week testing NordVPN, a trustworthy VPN service that can improve your ...

I loved email. It was the perfect kinda-personal-but-boundary-affirming way to keep in touch. However, over time, I, like many people, entrusted my email address to companies that gave away, sold, or ...

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Your email address has become a digital bread crumb for companies to link your activity across sites. Here’s how you can limit this. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is the lead consumer technology ...

I went on a journey for an entire month: I uninstalled my favorite and forced myself to live solely within three major ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

Alongside the launch of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, tvOS 15, and watchOS 8, Apple has also pushed an update for its iCloud.com website, introducing a new look for iCloud Mail that's viewed on the web. The new ...

Check if your Social Security number was stolen in the massive data theft and what to do to secure your personal information. Clifford led How To coverage. He spent a handful of years at Peachpit ...

While trolling through the dark web this week, I found my Twitter account's data. A dark web site this month released a data set of 200 million Twitter profiles. That's where I found my account's data ...

Your inbox could contain real money—or a trap. I made two fake settlement claim sites in five minutes, and I'm here to tell ...