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Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support — Ars Technica Office Depot and its software supplier have to pay $35 million toward refunds.

How Safe Are You Online? 10 Questions to Ask Yourself Unless you can answer "Yes" to these 10 questions, you're not as secure as you think you are.

7 Ways to Avoid Being Hit by Ransomware Ransomware can literally ruin your life. Are you doing enough to avoid losing your personal data and photos to digital extortion?

How to Make Your Wifi Router as Secure as Possible Though more router manufacturers are making routers easier to set up and configure—even via handy little apps instead of annoying web-based interfaces—most people probably don’t tweak many options after purchasing a new router. They log in, change the name and passwords for their wifi networks...

Don't Delete Facebook—Just Be Smarter on Facebook Facebook is kind of a mess right now. And there are plenty of equally messy reaction pieces cajoling you, and everyone you know, to delete your account in a massive middle finger to the web’s prevailing social network. That’s the easy take and, honestly, we’ve experienced this mob response bef...

Ever Wonder How Much Facebook Knows About You? Here’s How to See Facebook has a lot of information about—every post shared, photo uploaded, message sent, item clicked on, and pretty much every other data point you can imagine. And it’s all in the name of serving you better ads and keeping you on Facebook.

How to Deal With Apple's New iPhone-Crashing iOS Bug

World Backup Day Don't be an April Fool. Backup your files and check your restores on March 31st.

7 Lies You Shouldn't Tell the People Fixing Your Computer Long before I wrote blogs on the internet, when I was but a teeny college student with an LJ and a dream, I did tech support. And I saw things. I wasn’t the only one. The people who work tech have heard every excuse and seen every horror your mind can conjure.

Here's Everywhere You Should Enable Two-Factor Authentication Right Now Two-factor authentication is one of the best things you can do to make sure your accounts don't get hacked. We've talked about it a bit before, but here's a list of all the popular services that offer it, and where you should go to turn it on right now.

How to protect yourself while online shopping for the holidays Keep yourself safe during the biggest online shopping days of the year.

Top 10 Secret Features in iOS 10 iOS 10 is packed full of new features, but the best ones are often hidden under the hood. Here are some of our favorite lesser-known new features, the ones Apple isn’t advertising, and you would otherwise have to dig to find.

How to Undo the Changes on the iOS 10 Lock Screen Some of the biggest changes in iOS 10 are related to the lock screen. Swiping left and right now leads to the widgets screen and the camera. That means “slide to unlock” is dead, and you need to press the home button to actually get into your phone. If you want to undo some of these changes, here’s…

How to Fix iOS 10's Biggest Annoyances With every launch of a new operating system comes a handful of quirks and annoyances. iOS 10 is no different, but thankfully, most of those quirks are pretty easy to correct.

Three Easy Tricks to Improve Your Online Security There’s a lot of misinformation about security online. The truth is that by taking a few simple steps you can make yourself much safer. Here are the basic, super easy ways to do it:

The 10 best ways to make space on your iPhone If you still don't have enough storage after these tricks, you need to get an iPhone with more storage.

Network Improvements for TWC - Internet We are excited to announce a new plan to revolutionize the service in your area. We will be coming to your neighborhood in the next few weeks to install new wiring and equipment.

Why You Should Always Have More Than One Backup Your data really isn't safe unless you're backing up properly and with lots of redundancy. The computer backup rule of three, also known as the Backup 3-2-1 rule, can help ensure that your data will last.

Online Backup Faceoff: CrashPlan vs. Backblaze You don’t want to think about backups: You want them to happen automatically, in the background, on all your computers. You want to access those backups from anywhere, from any device, from any operating system. There are two excellent services for this: CrashPlan and Backblaze. Both are popular, an…

Top 10 Tech Security Basics Every Person Should Follow We talk a lot about computer security and data security here at Lifehacker, 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…

PLEASE backup your files on a REGULAR basis. As of today, there is no known prevention other than common sense (don't click on email attachments - especially ZIP files, only visit trusted sites, don't enable Word or Excel macros, etc.)

CryptoWall and HELP_DECRYPT Ransomware Information Guide and FAQ CryptoWall is a file-encrypting ransomware program that was released around the end of April 2014 that targets all versions of Windows including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. The media is commonly confusing CryptoWall with the CryptoLocker infection, when it is much more simil…

What Is Malvertising and How Can You Protect Yourself? Although it's difficult to say just how prevalent malvertising is, it's clear that it's a growing threat. Invincea, an endpoint security firm, blocked 2.1 million malicious advertisements in the first six months of 2015. RiskIQ stated that the number of bad ads counted in that period was an increase…

You may wake up to a Windows 10 operating system on your PC if you're running Windows 7 or 8 today.

Windows 10 Is Now a "Recommended Update" That's Automatically Downloaded Microsoft isn’t forcing Windows 7 and 8.1 users to upgrade to Windows 10, but they are pushing it on them pretty aggressively. Windows 10 is now automatically downloaded to all Windows 7 and 8.1 machines as a “recommended update” with the Windows Update tool—whether you want it or not.

Performance Tests Show That 16GB of RAM Is Overkill Adding more memory isn’t the performance upgrade it used to be, but how much RAM is enough? TechSpot compared application performance on a system with 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB and concludes 16GB offers little advantage over 8GB of memory—even when programs use more than 8GB of memory.

What Windows 10's "Privacy Nightmare" Settings Actually Do Windows 10 has some handy new features, but if you believe the rest of the internet, it also comes with features that eviscerate any semblance of privacy. Let’s take a closer look at what each of these settings actually do—and which ones are actually a privacy problem.

The Intel 6th Gen Skylake Review: Core i7-6700K and i5-6600K Tested It’s the Intel review you’ve been waiting for. Today is the launch of the first two CPUs from Intel’s Skylake architecture, the 6th Generation Core i7-6700K and the Core i5-6600K. With the new processors we get a new architecture, a new socket, the move to DDR4 and the potential to increase both per…

Find Out How Many Times Your Personal Info Might Have Been Stolen With all of the hacking attacks in the last few years, there’s a good chance some of your sensitive personal data has been exposed to hackers. This quiz from the New York Times highlights the most recent major attacks and what kind of information may have been exposed.

Check These 5 Settings After Installing Windows 10 You’ve taken the plunge and got Microsoft’s brand new operating system up and running on your machine—now what? Before you start familiarizing yourself with the ins and outs of the software, take a tour around these five settings and make sure Windows 10 is working the way you want.

Should I Upgrade to Windows 10? Windows 10 is finally here. You’ve seen some of its best new features, even heard what it’s like to use every day. But you might be wondering if you should upgrade. For some, it’s free, a great update, and a foregone conclusion. For others it’s better to wait, or think about other options. Let’s see…

Lifehacker Pack for Windows: Our List of the Essential Windows Apps Windows has more great programs than we can count, but some are essential to just about every PC setup. In this year’s annual Lifehacker Pack for Windows, we’re highlighting the must-have downloads for better productivity, communication, media management, and more.