September 21, 2026 Solving the AI Paradox In the last week, many news organizations have breathlessly covered the “AI doomer” comments by a former Anthropic employee, who said that many of…
September 14, 2026 Obscuring the Exit While we do have some state privacy laws in the US that require companies to allow you to opt out of data collection, these…
September 7, 2026 Use a Secure Wi-Fi Router Probably the single most important device on your home network in terms of security is your Wi-Fi router. In most cases, it’s the only…
August 31, 2026 Supply Chain Attacks Software apps today are a hodgepodge of libraries, software development kits, and third party code, all stitched together like Frankenstein’s monster. Furthermore, software developers…
August 24, 2026 Digital Citizen: Phase 2 As part of my celebration of the upcoming 500th podcast, I’m launching Phase 2 of my “cyber neighbor” campaign to both help as many…
August 17, 2026 DEF CON 34 It’s August, which means it’s time for Hacker Summer Camp once again! I flew out to a sweltering Las Vegas, Nevada, to attend two…
August 10, 2026 AI Tech Support: Trust, but Verify One of the most underrated uses for modern chatbots, in my estimation, is tech support. I don’t mean the chatbots offered by product websites,…
August 3, 2026 Top Cyber Threats 2026 With so many cyber threats to report on, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds. It’s good to take a step back and…
July 27, 2026 Update All the Things Over the last 2-3 months, large software makers such as Microsoft have been releasing tons of fixes for vulnerabilities in their apps and operating…
July 20, 2026 Digital Provenance With modern AI tools, how do we know which images and videos are real and which ones are generated? Wouldn’t it be helpful to…
