Is a VPN a Very Pressing Necessity?
By Diane Tait Image courtesy Pixabay If you’ve like to surf the web, then you realize cybersecurity is a very pressing necessity. That’s because you can’t read a newsfeed without bumping into a post about hackers. Everyone from Fortune 500 companies to consumers and kids are being hacked these days. That’s because hacking is big business. The FBI recently reported that hackers cost the US economy more than $4.2 billion in 2020. Hackers use every kind of trick in the book to put a hook in their victims. Everything from phishing and clickbait to ratting and ransomware is being used to break into web-enabled devices of all kinds. Sad to say, if you share and receive data, make payments and shop online, you risk having your personal and financial data compromised. While you may have one or more layers of cybersecurity software on your devices, if you inadvertently accept a poisoned email or click on a corrupted link, you could...