Top 10 Tech Security Basics Every Person Should Follow

We talk a lot about computer security and data security, but you can never have too many reminders of the basics. Here, in a nutshell, are the security tips and habits every computer user should know. Consider it a quick way to audit your own security or help others you care about get the essentials down.

10. Watch Out for Social Engineering Attacks

9. Make Your Phone’s Lock Code More Secure

8. Back Up Your Computer Automatically

7. Install the Best Antivirus and Anti-Malware Software

6. Lock Down Your Wireless Router

5. Never Send Sensitive Information Over Email Unless It’s Encrypted

4. Don’t Use Public Wi-Fi Without a VPN

3. Use a Password Manager

2. Use Two-Factor Authentication

1. Regularly Review Your App Permissions and Security Settings

Get all the details at the original article at lifehacker.com/top-10-tech-security-basics-every-person-should-follow-1767148925.

Google’s latest mobile search algorithm update makes having a mobile-friendly site even more important

If your site isn’t easy to use on mobile, Google penalizes it by ranking it lower on its mobile search results pages. To give publishers even more of an incentive to offer mobile-friendly pages, Google today announced that, in May, it will increase the importance of having a mobile page, and sites that are not mobile-friendly will rank even lower than before.

As the company noted when it first introduced this as a ranking signal last year, the basic idea here is to give mobile users a better search experience.

Google started this effort back in 2014 by simply marking sites with a badge that it considers mobile friendly. A few months later, it started using this as a ranking signal, too.

Speed has long been one of Google’s obsessions, and over the course of the last few months, and it does prominently feature fast-loading pages.

If you have questions or concerns about how this will impact your web page, contact R3 Web Solutions.

(View the original article at http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/16/googles-makes-having-a-mobile-friendly-site-more-important-get-page-one-listing-seo/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+francaistechcrunch+%28TechCrunch+en+Francais%29.)

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Starting with the iPhone 6, you are now able to charge it from 0 to 100% almost twice as fast. Here's how you can do it.

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One-fifth of Americans report going online ‘almost constantly’

As smartphones and other mobile devices have become more widespread, some 21% of Americans now report that they go online “almost constantly,” according to a Pew Research Center survey.

Overall, almost three-quarters of Americans go online on a daily basis. Along with the 21% who go online almost constantly, 42% go online several times a day and 10% go online about once a day. Some 13% go online several times a week or less often. And in this survey, one-eigth of adults say they do not use the internet at all.

How do you compare?

Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/08/one-fifth-of-americans-report-going-online-almost-constantly/