Fraud & Security Alert

Using apps on your smartphone can make life easier, but it can also make it easy for companies to track your every move. Researchers recently found tracking issues with about 450 popular apps. Here's what the apps in question are, along with how you should handle this tracking issue.

Any time you do an online search, you're at risk of ending up on a spoofed website or infecting your device with malware. Now, a Google search for a popular store is actually displaying a malicious ad as the top result. We'll explain how this malicious ad campaign works and show you what to avoid.

Microsoft moved all of its Hotmail users over to Outlook in 2013. But in the process, the tech giant forgot to implement the storage limit that was active for new Outlook users. Hotmail users are now getting messages that they are over the limit and might have to start paying up.

You should remove any smartphone app you don’t use. This goes for both iPhone and Android users. If you keep these apps, you’re bloating your phone. That’s bad news.