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…
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…
January 16, 2023 New Year’s Resolutions: 2023 It’s that time of year again! Time to put the past behind us and look forward to a brand new year, full of possibilities…
October 24, 2022 Your TV is Watching You This is going to sound bonkers, even though you’re used to so many things tracking you… web pages, emails, and apps… but I’m here…
March 14, 2022 Computer Security Goes Microscopic We didn’t use to think too much about physical computer security because most computers were safely stored in our homes or businesses. But many…
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 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…
July 6, 2020 TikTok Boom TikTok is the hot new social media service (Snapchat and Instragram are so last year), particularly in Asian countries like India. But India just…
May 18, 2020 Beware the Evil Maid Intel created the Thunderbolt protocol to give us blazingly fast data transfer and other interesting features. Thunderbolt usually comes with the newer USB-C ports,…