maryland says hacker attacks occur every 39 seconds affecting one in three users every year tech connection by marc saltzman erhaps this holiday season you'll find yourself unwrapping a new awesome gear-smartphones but while you're having fun with your info and prevent it from falling into the here are a few precautions you can take stop the breach super simple ways to secure your tech smartphones and tablets or facial scan • only download apps from reputable terms and conditions before granting permission to everything • set up the "find my phone” feature • use the private or incognito mode of remain anonymous when you're online sevag sagherian to confirm it's a secure connection • close your webcam lens when it's not in use or add a lens cover if you're concerned about privacy messages or phone calls that ask you to would never ask you to do this smart tvs if your smart tv supports voice rec- ognition and you're concerned about it the settings area and turn it back on when you want to use it laptops and desktops • do you use your laptop in public? consider a privacy screen to stop over- the-shoulder snoopers • resist free public wi-fi to get your mobile phone or wait until you're on a secure wireless network at home • use a vpn service to remain anony- mous when on the web for online shopping and banking marc saltzman is a leading high-tech reporter and author he's on twitter @marc_saltzman saltzman will answer selected questions in that unpublished questions cannot be answered individually smart speakers with products like those in the cuts off the microphone from listening enable it whenever you have a request email connection acostco.com please include "tech connection" in the subject line costco connection password power never use the same have access to all of your strong password-at least upper- and lowercase letters numbers and symbols smart home tech and more are available at costco and on costco.com id protection from complete id can be found under "services" on costco.com for online banking and code sent to your mobile device to log in.-ms
