October 6, 2025 Tech Time Bombs There are literally billions of devices connected to the internet today – many of them cheap, insecure IoT devices… smart thermostats, doorbell cameras, webcams,…
July 14, 2025 Freezing Your Mobile Account Your cell phone number uniquely identifies you. Many companies rely on this 1-to-1 relationship to authenticate you to their systems. So if someone were…
November 18, 2024 Best & Worst Gifts for 2024 Holiday shopping season is here! And today I’ll give you the highlights of my annual Best & Worst Gift Guide for 2024, with regard…
November 11, 2024 Cutting the Software Tether Device manufacturers are breathing new life into old mundane products by connecting them to the internet, giving us the ability to monitor and control…
September 23, 2024 Malware Reboot Remedy We often think of malware as a problem for our computers and perhaps our smartphones. But bad guys love to hack our home routers…
May 20, 2024 How to Choose a PIN Security experts talk at length about how to choose a good password – but we don’t often talk about how to choose a good…
May 6, 2024 Please Quit Chrome Google’s Chrome browser has dominated the planet – both on desktop computers and mobile devices. Furthermore, many other popular web browsers are actually based…
April 8, 2024 Answering Listener Questions Today I answer some of the most interesting listener questions from the past several months, including: how to do you get SMS 2FA codes…
November 6, 2023 The Rise of Cellular IoT Connecting all our stuff to the internet – making devices “smart” – brings with it a lot of risks. Besides the more obvious cybersecurity…
April 17, 2023 Securing the Internet of Things As cybersecurity experts love to say, the “S” in “IoT” stands for security… meaning there is none. I’ve seen estimates that say there were…
