Tax preparation software privacy deserves attention before you type a single number into a filing program. Tax preparation software is any desktop program, website or mobile app that guides you through completing and electronically filing…
Privacy by Default Settings are the protective choices an operating system makes before you touch a single switch. Because most people keep whatever a device ships with, these starting positions decide how much personal data…
Tax data privacy concerns one of the most revealing records a person creates each year: the tax return and the documents behind it. Tax data means the income, deductions, identifiers and household details you report…
Rug pull warning signs are the patterns in a token’s code, liquidity, ownership and promotion that suggest its creators may abandon the project and take investors’ money with them. A rug pull is an exit…
Token approval security is the practice of controlling which smart contracts are allowed to move tokens out of your wallet, and for how much. Most decentralized applications cannot touch your tokens until you grant permission,…
Financial identity verification is the process banks, payment apps, lenders and brokers use to confirm that a person opening an account or making a major change is who they claim to be. It explains why…
Identity providers are the services that check who you are and then vouch for you to other websites and applications. When you sign in to a work tool through your company login, or to a…
Governance attack risks are the ways a decentralized protocol can be harmed through its own decision-making process rather than through a coding bug. Many DeFi protocols are run by a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO,…
Credit monitoring privacy is a question many people skip when they sign up for a service that promises to watch their credit. A credit monitoring service is a product that tracks changes to your credit…
Operating System Attack Surfaces are the sum of every point where an attacker could try to get into a device or extract data from it. Each running service, open network port, connected peripheral and installed…