Got a new phone or PC for XMAS? What about the old one?
Getting new gear for the holidays is great! But what about all of your personal info on your old electronics? Don’t let that data get into the wrong hands. In a study by security software vendor Avast, they purchased 20 Android smartphones from eBay and were able to recover from the phone – 40,000 photos – including 250 nude selfies, along with 750 emails and text messages, 250 contacts, identities of 4 previous phone owners and one completed loan application. Users THOUGHT they were doing a ‘clean’ wipe and factory re-install on their phones. It turns out though that after doing this wipe … Continue reading