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…
August 28, 2023 Assessing Your Network Security In the third part of my series on securing your home network, we’ll assess your security and privacy vulnerabilities. In prior weeks, we’ve exhaustively…
June 5, 2023 Blocking .zip Domains Two weeks ago, I told you about the availability of two new top-level domains that also happen to be popular file name extensions: .zip…
May 22, 2023 Problems with Passkeys Everyone hates dealing with passwords. This has led to a mad search for ‘password-killer’ technology. After several failed attempts, there’s finally a worthy contender:…
January 30, 2023 Data Privacy Week 2023 Every January, we celebrate privacy with Data Privacy Week. It has rightly expanded from Data Privacy Day. And of course every day should be…
December 5, 2022 Tis the Season for Scams Tis the season for giving… and unfortunately, also for taking. Scammers tend to be extremely active during the holiday season. We’re buying lots of…
November 21, 2022 Best & Worst Gifts for 2022 Black Friday is just around the corner, which marks the unofficial launch of the holiday shopping season. As you’re considering what gifts to give…
August 8, 2022 Security Via Subtraction All software has bugs, so the more software you have installed, the more bugs you have. It’s not just the bugs in any individual…
October 8, 2018 How to Protect Yourself From Ransomware Ransomware, the malware that locks up your data and hold it for ransom, has been growing by leaps and bounds in the past few…
February 19, 2018 🎧 Authorized Personnel Only: Saving You from Yourself You know the best way to limit what malware can do on your system? Limit what YOU can do! Software on computers generally inherits…