May 30, 2022 Emergency Mode Modern smartphones have a potentially life-saving feature called “SOS” or “Emergency” mode that can give first responders critical medical information and automatically dial your…
February 21, 2022 De-Google Your Life (Part 2) One of my big goals for 2022 was to minimize my Google footprint. In the last news show, I covered Google Search, Chrome and…
February 7, 2022 De-Google Your Life One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2022 is to minimize my Google footprint. In reality, it’s very difficulty to completely avoid Google products,…
December 20, 2021 The Log4Shell Debacle The internet is on fire this week. The worst cybersecurity vulnerability of the last ten years (and perhaps more) has kicked the internet ant…
November 29, 2021 My Debit Card Was Hacked Credit cards are more secure than debit cards. I’ve said this in my book, my podcast, my blog and my seminars. Credit card transactions…
November 15, 2021 Best & Worst Gifts for 2021 The gift-giving season is officially upon us, and with covid supply chain issues, if you’re going to order gifts, you need to get on…
October 18, 2021 Rough Week for Facebook Facebook had a horrible, no-good, very bad week. Not only did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp go completely offline for about six hours, a whistleblower…
October 4, 2021 iOS 15 Privacy & Security Features I admit it. I’m an Apple fan. Are they perfect? Definitely not. But in most cases, they’re actually trying to be good. And at…
September 27, 2021 Apple’s Problematic CSAM Scanning Apple was set to roll out controversial new on-device scanning technology in iOS 15 last week, but thanks to pushback from groups like the…
September 20, 2021 Security Is Hard It’s really easy to complain about the sadly insecure state of many of our products and services, but the fact is that doing security…
