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,…
April 6, 2026 Routers Behaving Badly The US is planning to ban all foreign-made or foreign-designed home WiFi routers… which is basically all routers. It’s true that many consumer routers…
March 23, 2026 Spring Cleaning When we think about improving security and privacy, we tend to add things: password managers, VPNs, encrypted communication apps. But one of the most…
March 9, 2026 Fixing ClickFix Bad guys have found a willing accomplice for installing malware: YOU. This very effective malware delivery mechanism, dubbed ClickFix, accounted for over half of…
December 1, 2025 Be Wary of Holiday Scams With the holiday season come holiday scams – and honestly, just more scammer activity across the board, in general. People are busy and buying…
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…
February 12, 2024 Avoiding Tax Scams It’s tax time here again in the USA, and therefore it’s also time for tax scams. I’ll explain how to recognize common tax scams,…
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…
September 11, 2023 Remediate Your Network Today I wrap up my four-part series on how to secure your home network. We’ve enumerated our devices, gotten rid of stuff we don’t…
