Should you secure your network? You might have heard about the 2020 cyber attack on SolarWinds creating a backdoor to systems running the SolarWinds product, or the Russian hackers that have been accused of tampering with voting...
Internet robots are known by a variety of names including spiders, crawlers, web robots, or just bots. They’re commonly used for repetitive work such as search engine indexing because they can perform these simple tasks more quickly...
Pay the ransom or lose your data forever The Atlanta Police Department recently lost dashcam footage going back years and so far the clean up cost has topped a hefty $9.5 million. That number could climb even...
Free public WiFi can be found in just about every cafe, restaurant, airport, and hotel these days. Unfortunately, few consider or even understand that these networks are often unsecure. That means that if you’re doing something that...
I recently wrote about how Google is no longer going to alert users that a site is secure. Instead, they’re going to alert users if a web page isn’t secure. This is because most sites nowadays use...
Stop. Before you read what I have to say here about how to secure your Internet of Things (IoT) devices I want you to read about how a casino’s high-roller database fell into the hands of hackers...
As the 16th century English father of empiricism Francis Bacon said, knowledge is power. I’m pretty sure that if Sir Francis were alive today he’d tell you that if you want to avoid getting hacked you need...
Strong passwords secure your personal information and keep prying eyes away from seeing what they’re not supposed to be seeing whether those are emails, files, or anything else. Although Mat Honan’s experience wasn’t directly related to a...
Due to the increasingly ubiquitous nature of HTTPS Google will no longer let you know if a page is secure. Instead, it will let you know if a page isn’t secure. They plan to roll out the...
4 Definitive Signs Your Pricey New Cybersecurity Investment Is Destined to Crash and Burn It doesn’t matter what the catalyst was, whether something bad actually happened or you’re playing it safe by getting ahead of the threat...