…or, in this case, the Itty Bitty. I get my news and information from a wide variety of sources: websites, newsletters, YouTube channels, and podcasts, primarily. Today’s media content lends itself well to consumer contribution, and that increases the value of each medium as well as each producer. I currently follow 17 podcasts, and the only reason I can do […]
Sometimes It’s the Little Things
…and from the “whatever happened to” department…
Just about a year ago, the Infotech security space was all ablaze with noise about this thing called “BadBIOS.” This was a scary bug, for several reasons. First, it was new, which meant that before the security researchers could come up with the cure for it, it could do a lot of damage; but that’s not unique. Second, it had […]
Is Your Heart Bleeding?
What have you heard about the vulnerability called Heartbleed? More than you wanted to? Less than you needed to? Let me unpack it for you, only the part that you need to know, and then I’ll get a little deeper for those who want to stick around for the full meal. Let’s do a Good News/Bad News thing. What […]
You Can’t Just Surf Anymore
It never was really safe to just surf around and clickety-click on interesting-looking stuff, but it just keeps getting truer and truer (is that grammatically correct?) that you have got to pay attention to what you’re doing on the web. You’ve got to pay attention when you get an email with a link or an attachment. (See Cryptolocker) You’ve got […]
Well, Money, Obviously
That’s the answer; the question is, what do the bad guys want? Ultimately, the bottom line, at the end of the day, the spam, the botnets, the phishing emails, the hoax sites, it’s all about getting money, either directly or indirectly, from someone otherwise unwilling to give it up that easily. Let’s start with spam, since there’s so dang much […]
Before You Send That Resume…
Before you send that resume, you might want to take a look at your social media profiles, and the stuff you’ve put “out there,” and see what they say about you. While I doubt the validity of requiring your Facebook login ID and password would stand up in any court, employers have ways of checking your online life without it. […]
I’m Completely Safe On a Mac Or Linux
FALSE! Well, you might be safer on a Mac or Linux machine than on an unpatched Windows machine. But just getting a Mac and never taking safety measures, and then clicking on every link that comes into your email and giving your install password to every process that requests it isn’t any safer than running any other Windows machine. Remember Willie […]
Please Tell Me Your Wi-Fi Has a Password
Regardless of the method used to connect to the internet, if you use a wireless router or access point, IT NEEDS A PASSWORD–and it needs to NOT be set as “password.” If you use U-VERSE from AT&T, the password is on the bottom of the device, and it’s a good password. I don’t know how much configuration you can do […]
Can You Create a Secure Password?
Recently I told you several things that you need to know about passwords. Today I’ll give you step by step instructions on how to make a strong, secure password that will meet requirements and that you will eventually remember. Trust me, you CAN remember them. The sentence method: Open up a program on your computer that you can free-flow type […]
Securely Logging In
All logins are not created equal, and they don’t all need to be. There are some places I visit on the web that don’t need a secure login, because they aren’t storing anything significant about me. I have a login for my RSS reader (if you want to know what an RSS reader is, check out my post here), but […]