Equifax Got Hacked: How to Stop Identity Thieves from Opening Accounts in Your Name

Did You Know? The brand name of Leatherman multitools and knives isn’t just a manly trademark, it’s actually the name of one of the company’s cofounders, Timothy S. Leatherman. Geek Trivia The Original Term Used To Describe Microorganisms Was? Animalcule → Infusoria → Minutomia → Caminalcules → Advertisement Download OReilly: The Evolution of Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning in Business Analytics is now an expected part of the bottom line. The irony is that as more companies become adept at analytics, it becomes less of a competitive advantage. Businesses are now being forced to look deeper into their data to increase efficiency and competitiveness. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. The Best Unofficial Twitter Apps for Android What Is the System Reserved Partition and Can You Delete It? How to Require Moderator Approval for Posts in Your Facebook Group How Do Windows Defender’s “Automatic Sample Submission” and “Cloud-Based Protection” Work? How to Disable the “Is Running in the Background” Notification on Android Oreo Equifax Got Hacked: How to Stop Identity Thieves from Opening Accounts in Your Name Instantly Search Your Terminal History With a Keyboard Shortcut How to See If Your Facebook Friends Are Safe During an Emergency How to Mark Yourself “Safe” On Facebook During an Emergency The Cheapest Ways to Stream NFL Football (Without Cable) How to Play Any Windows Game In Full Screen Borderless Windowed Mode How to Block Text Messages from a Certain Number on Android How to Make Someone an Admin or Moderator in Your Facebook Group Should You Get an “Ultra HD” 4K TV? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Host-Based Printer A Host-Based Printer is a printer that relies on a computer’s processor to perform all page processing and generate printable pages. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Bunk beds, roaches and nerdy geniuses: my year in a Silicon Valley hacker house The lives of tech entrepreneurs aren't always as glamorous as they're made out to be, as I learned living among them on a dangerous San Francisco street [The Guardian] Equifax compromised 143 million people's Social Security numbers and other data Equifax announced today that 143 million US-based users had their personal information compromised this year. [The Verge] What's in a face? If monkeys don't see them as babies, they don't know Study suggests how specialized visual recognition might develop. [ArsTechnica] This Huge Telescope is Built Like A Halfpipe and Hunts for Dark Energy Dark energy is driving the accelerating expansion of the universe. No one knows what it is. [Motherboard] The Best Unofficial Twitter Apps for Android Services that offer public APIs often get their best tools from third-party developers. Social platform Twitter is no exception: almost anyone who uses Twitter professionally will have TweetDeck on their desktop, which started out as an independent tool before Twitter acquired the project. Read This Article → What Is the System Reserved Partition and Can You Delete It? Windows 7, 8, and 10 create a special “System Reserved” partition when you install them on a clean disk. Windows doesn’t normally assign a drive letter to these partitions, so you’ll only see them when you use Disk Management or similar utility. Read This Article → How to Require Moderator Approval for Posts in Your Facebook Group By default, any member can post anything they want in your Facebook Groups. This means they could post horribly offensive content, and while you can remove it, it might be a while before you get to it. Read This Article → How Do Windows Defender’s “Automatic Sample Submission” and “Cloud-Based Protection” Work? Windows 10’s integrated Windows Defender antivirus has some “cloud” features, like other modern antivirus applications. By default, Windows automatically uploads some suspicious-looking files and reports data about suspicious activity so new threats can be detected and blocked as quickly as possible. Read This Article → How to Disable the “Is Running in the Background” Notification on Android Oreo If you have a Nexus or Pixel device running Oreo, you’ve likely seen the “[app name] is running in the background” notification. While useful, this is also quite annoying. Fortunately, a new app will remove this notification permanently. Read This Article → Equifax Got Hacked: How to Stop Identity Thieves from Opening Accounts in Your Name Everybody is getting hacked left and right. Anthem lost 80 million records in 2015. The US government got hacked and lost personal data for millions, all the way down to fingerprint data. Now Equifax, a credit bureau, got hacked. So how can you protect yourself from criminals opening accounts in your name? Read This Article → Instantly Search Your Terminal History With a Keyboard Shortcut Everyone who regularly uses the command line has at least one long string they type regularly. Instead of entering all that again and again, quickly search your history to find the complete command. Read This Article → How to See If Your Facebook Friends Are Safe During an Emergency Facebook’s Safety Check feature lets you check in during an emergency to confirm you’re safe. If you have friends or family in an area that you haven’t heard from, though, you may want to ask them directly. Here’s how to ask someone to check in with the Safety Check feature. Read This Article → How to Mark Yourself “Safe” On Facebook During an Emergency Whenever there’s a natural disaster, your friends and family will want to know that you’re safe. Facebook has tried to make this easier with its Safety Check feature. Here’s how to let everyone you know on Facebook that you’re safe with a couple clicks, instead of messaging everyone individually. Read This Article → The Cheapest Ways to Stream NFL Football (Without Cable) Football season is almost upon us. That means one thing: expensive cable or satellite TV packages. Okay, it also means beer commercials and overpriced stadium tickets and quarterbacks trying to sell you car insurance. But in terms of immediate costs, premium TV is up there. Read This Article → How to Play Any Windows Game In Full Screen Borderless Windowed Mode If you’re a regular PC gamer, you know that playing a game in full screen mode can sometimes be a frustrating experience. Switching to a background program, using a second monitor, or suddenly getting a notification that takes focus can mess up your game. Playing the game in a window fixes these problems, but it’s less immersive and doesn’t use your monitor’s full space effectively. Read This Article → How to Block Text Messages from a Certain Number on Android Look, we all get annoying text messages from time to time. Maybe it’s spam, maybe it’s from someone you don’t want to talk to, maybe it’s some other third thing. The point is, you don’t want to get them. So let’s block ’em. Read This Article → How to Make Someone an Admin or Moderator in Your Facebook Group If you've made a Facebook Group and it's turned into an active community, you might want to bring someone else in to help you moderate and remove offensive comments. Here's how. Read This Article → Should You Get an “Ultra HD” 4K TV? Walk through any electronics showroom and most TVs you see will be some form of "Ultra HD" 4K. There are plenty of models available, and they're cheaper than ever. But should you buy one? Read This Article → Advertisement Download OReilly: The Evolution of Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning in Business Analytics is now an expected part of the bottom line. The irony is that as more companies become adept at analytics, it becomes less of a competitive advantage. Businesses are now being forced to look deeper into their data to increase efficiency and competitiveness. Click here to download