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…
July 5, 2021 Make That Shaken AND Stirred Robocalls are the bane of my existence. I get so many spam calls that I’ve just stopped answering my home phone altogether. I’ve given…
June 28, 2021 Sad State of Cybersecurity Today’s news headlines are littered with stories on massive cybersecurity failures: SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange, Colonial Pipeline, data breaches, ransomware… Are the bad guys ramping…
June 21, 2021 Hacking Satellites for Fun & Profit Are satellites really just IoT devices in space? They’re small computers and connected to the internet, not unlike Nest thermostats, baby video monitors, and…
June 14, 2021 Payment App Privacy Sucks Payment apps are fairly secure & very convenient, but NOT private. And Venmo is the worst. Venmo is the only payment app that is…
June 7, 2021 Have I Been FLoCed? (Part 2) Is it possible for you to view your FLoC ID right now? And if so, can you decode this ID to understand what Google…
May 31, 2021 Have I Been FLoCed? (Part 1) The public has voted and the results are in: people do not want to be tracked. In response, like pop-up ads before them, third…
May 24, 2021 How & When to Use a Passphrase Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for! The super-secret, highly-collectible, security-enhancing device is finally HERE!! For a short period of time, I…
May 17, 2021 Protecting Intellectual Freedom (Part 2) What is Tor, exactly? How and why would I use it? And what the heck is a Tor node? In part 2 of my…
May 10, 2021 Protecting Intellectual Freedom (Part 1) Want to read a book without your reading history being tracked? Do you need to surf the web with complete anonymity? If so, then…
