July 27, 2026 Update All the Things Over the last 2-3 months, large software makers such as Microsoft have been releasing tons of fixes for vulnerabilities in their apps and operating…
September 8, 2025 Find Old Accounts (Part 1) The next step in reducing our digital footprint is to identify all of our online accounts, including the long forgotten and unused ones. The…
August 11, 2025 Hacker Summer Camp 2025 It’s early August, which means it’s time for BSides Las Vegas and DEF CON, part of the trio of conferences that make up “hacker…
May 5, 2025 Disable Your MAID As we learned last week from Zach Edwards, our smartphones have a globally unique mobile ad ID, or MAID, that is automatically associated with…
July 1, 2024 Backing Up Other Data We’ve talked about how to backup your local device data and how to back up data that is primarily stored in the cloud. But…
June 17, 2024 Backup Your Cloud Data Until recently, most of our important data lived primarily on our devices. Backing up that data often meant choosing a cloud backup service. But…
April 22, 2024 Just Do It: Freeze Your Credit You’ve heard people like me recommend this for years. It’s time to just do it: freeze your credit report. There are really no downsides…
January 29, 2024 Data Privacy Week 2024 While every week is Data Privacy Week here at Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons, the rest of the world stops to join us in focusing…
July 31, 2023 Less is More Last time, I told you how to enumerate all the devices on your home network. Before we go to the trouble of analyzing and…
May 8, 2023 Blocking Google Popups Have you noticed Google getting really pushy lately with offers to “sign in with Google”? You’re not alone. Many websites offer the ability to…
