December 6, 2021 Defending Democracy with Technology Transparency is critical when it comes to trust – and right now, particularly in the United States, we’re having some real issues with trust…
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…
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…
September 6, 2021 Privacy Matters For many people, privacy is just a vague concept. But it can literally be a matter of life and death. It deserves your attention,…
July 12, 2021 How to Keep Ransomware at Bay Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, the bad guys say “hold my beer”. The REvil gang has managed to pull off what…
March 29, 2021 Stop Using SMS for 2FA Passwords suck and humans aren’t good at using them. Password managers can help a lot, but to truly improve your account security these days,…
September 21, 2020 Take Out the (Windows) Trash If you’re a Windows PC user, you know the term “bloatware”, or maybe “crapware”. Every consumer PC comes chock full of it. Free trials…
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…
October 19, 2017 Do We Own Any Media We Buy Anymore? In the second of my two-part interview with activist and author Cory Doctorow, we discuss how copy protection schemes (called “Digital Rights Management”) is…
