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…
July 27, 2020 The Great Twitter Hack Last week, Twitter was massively hacked – apparently just to launch a Bitcoin scam (though that story is still developing). Famous people’s accounts were…
June 1, 2020 Fiber For Our Future (part 1) The COVID-19 era has exposed several weaknesses in American infrastructure and exacerbated the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. Perhaps nowhere is this…
April 20, 2020 Phish Spotting 101 The bad guys are having a field day with all the coronavirus hubbub, using our fears and anxieties to trick us into clicking bad…
April 6, 2020 Secure & Private Social Distancing During our global COVID-19 self-quarantining, video conferencing usage has exploded. I’ve tried to find hard statistics, but they’re rising so fast that anything I…
