January 9, 2023 Privacy Tide is Turning Facebook stock is down 65%, they just paid $725M to settle the Cambridge Analytica lawsuit, and they’ve just been fined over $400M by the…
January 2, 2023 SPECIAL: LastPass Breach Right before Christmas, LastPass dropped a bombshell report explaining that bad actors appeared to have made copies of LastPass users’ encrypted password vaults. The…
December 26, 2022 Building a Better Private Network All our devices and apps use the internet these days. But what are they doing on the internet, exactly? Who are they talking to?…
December 19, 2022 Best of 2022! The year is almost over and as we head into the holiday season I wanted to reminisce with some of my favorite snippets from…
December 12, 2022 We Are the Cavalry Today when computer systems fail, they can cause real, physical harm. In just the last few years, we’ve seen cyber attacks interfere with our…
December 5, 2022 Tis the Season for Scams Tis the season for giving… and unfortunately, also for taking. Scammers tend to be extremely active during the holiday season. We’re buying lots of…
November 28, 2022 300th Episode!! I can’t believe I’ve been doing this for 300 weeks – almost 6 years now! And returning for his 3rd “podcentennial” episode is world-renowned…
November 21, 2022 Best & Worst Gifts for 2022 Black Friday is just around the corner, which marks the unofficial launch of the holiday shopping season. As you’re considering what gifts to give…
November 14, 2022 Surveying the Digital Explosion Connected computers have changed the world perhaps more than any other single invention. The impacts of nearly instant global communication and effectively infinite, perfect…
November 7, 2022 Redirect Ransom QR codes are not inherently dangerous. They’re effectively links we can click in the real world using the camera app on our phone. Like…