Stuart Kerr Spindlow is Impulsec’s Publisher, Chief Editor and Lead Reviewer. He writes and maintains coverage of consumer cybersecurity and digital-safety software, with a focus on practical suitability, limitations and the evidence behind product claims. Read Stuart’s full profile.
How to Recover a Hacked Facebook Account
Use Facebook’s official recovery route, protect remaining access and review sessions, email and connected apps after recovering a hacked account.
How to Secure Your Home Router: Essential Settings
Secure router access, Wi-Fi encryption and guest-network boundaries. Check model-specific updates, unknown devices and recovery limits before changing settings.
How to Check If Your Email Was in a Data Breach
Check your email safely, interpret breach records, distinguish exposure from mailbox access, and choose the right recovery steps.
How to Protect Against SIM Swapping: Locks and Recovery
Protect your phone number with carrier safeguards, secure non-SMS authentication and practical recovery steps if you suspect a SIM swap.
How to Recognise Phishing Emails: Signs and Safe Checks
Quick Answer Pause when an unexpected email asks you to sign in, pay, open a file or reveal information. A familiar name, clean writing or an apparently correct sender is not proof. Open the service […]
What to Do After a Data Breach: Accounts, Credit and Recovery
Confirm the notice, identify exposed information and take the account, payment or credit-protection steps that fit. Understand what monitoring and recovery services can and cannot do.
What to Do After Identity Theft in the US
A practical US recovery plan for identity theft: secure affected accounts, protect credit files, report fraud and correct records without confusing each step’s limits.
Scams Targeting Older Adults: FTC Renews Its Warning
A 4 November FTC reminder revisits older-adult fraud findings. Here is how families can verify unexpected requests and respond to money, account or device exposure.
How to Freeze Your Child’s Credit in the US
Quick Answer For a US child under 16, a parent or authorised representative can request a free protected-consumer credit freeze separately at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Each bureau needs proof of identity and authority; if […]