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4 Gmail Labs features you should be using
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Email can be adventurous! Make your Gmail inbox more productive with experimental add-ons like Undo Send, Canned Responses, and more.

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Ten simple steps for a Safer Internet

Let’s Create a Better Internet
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Proper manners are as important online as they are offline. However, few people actually commit to being a good example in their online community. Maybe it’s

Macs can absolutely get infected with malware and viruses. However, given the design of OSX, it's harder for criminals to get in. The problem is once they are in, you often will NOT know it. The most dangerous infections are those you can't see. Junkware throwing up bogus infection notices asking for $59 to clean your computer leads people to believe they'll always 'know' they are infected. So to be safe, you should run some type of anti-virus on your Mac, even if it's a scanner you run once a week.

Can Macs get viruses and malware? We ask an expert
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There is a popular conception that Macs can't get viruses, but is that really true? Do you need antivirus software on your Mac? We asked some experts to find out.

Ever wonder how you can ensure your conversations remain private? There's an app for that. Actually there's three!

How To Keep NSA Computers From Turning Your Phone Conversations Into Searchable Text – The Intercept
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Signal for the iPhone and RedPhone for Android, both made by Open Whisper Systems, are the best current software for end-to-end encryption of phone calls.

We get asked often where malware comes from when it infects PCs. The answer is 'almost everywhere' – but one source that many people don't realize is web ads. Ads designed to look like download buttons or action buttons on the site they're served on will take you elsewhere and they'll attempt to get you to run a malicious program or script. The best way to avoid this? Run an ad-block program like uBlock. However, many web sites rely on advertising revenue to survive, so if you do ad-block, whitelist sites you visit often as the ad-blocker has a 'malware' blacklist that will still block many dangerous ads.

Rogue Ads Impacted Tens of Millions Users, Google Study Reveals
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In 2014, 5.5% of visitors to a Google site were served malicious ads, according to a Google study. In an in-depth analysis of the web injection ecosystem, Googl

It's not just creepy old men trying to hack into your computers and take over your webcam. Crazy stuff.

Woman charged with running webcam-hacking network
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It's not at unusual these days to hear stories of innocent people's webcams being hacked. Typically the perpetrators are guys, getting their kicks out of snoopi