October 12, 2026 IP Reputation Laundering Residential proxy networks have become very popular ways for bad guys to launder their illicit activities through our normal home network traffic. By mixing…
August 19, 2024 Dating App Privacy Finding your soul mate or even just a one-night stand can all be done digitally now – there’s an app for that. Several, in…
April 15, 2024 Protecting Kids Online There’s a lot of nasty stuff online – things we would prefer our kids not see, at least not until they’re mature enough to…
December 11, 2023 Restoring Trust in Elections We here in the US like to believe that we’re the gold standard for democracy. And yet, in recent years, much of the electorate…
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 15, 2023 Probing the Ministry of Truth In the book “1984” (published in 1949), George Orwell envisioned a Big Brother that would control the media and dictate what was “truth”. But…
April 24, 2023 How to Avoid Juice Jacking Our smartphones have become indispensable tools for our daily lives – so seeing that dreaded red battery indicator can induce some serious anxiety. But…
November 1, 2021 Spooky Security Stories There were lots of scary computer security and privacy stories in the news this week, coinciding nicely with Halloween. We’ll start off with an…
December 21, 2020 Best of 2020! I’ve painstakingly scoured the last 50 episodes to select the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the top tips for the…
October 12, 2020 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! The theme this year is: if you connect it, protect it! And given how popular IoT devices are…
