Oct 27, 2021 | Android, Apple, Google, phone, Privacy, security
The more powerful your phone gets, the more privacy you have. Strange but true! Things have taken an unexpected turn when you weren’t looking. For years “the cloud” has been a magical phrase that means all the heavy lifting in our tech lives is happening online. Our...
Jul 14, 2021 | business, cybersecurity, law, Politics, security
On July 3 the Russian hacking group REvil infiltrated tools distributed by a security and monitoring firm – Kaseya, this time – and slipped ransomware into thousands of business networks. Today REvil has disappeared, a curious twist in the story of the Kaseya hack –...
Jun 20, 2021 | mail, security, spam
Someday soon your email will have a receipt for something you didn’t buy. It will be matter of fact and bland but you’re pretty sure your wife would have mentioned it if she had bought, say, a pair of Luis Vuitton sneakers, so the email receipt stands out. You’re...
Jun 17, 2021 | law, news, Politics, Privacy, science, security
Most of the arguments against vaccine passports are just made-up crap. Like many of today’s social issues, much of the opposition to Covid vaccination certificates is not actually about things like medicine and public health (or, as I like to put it, “reality”). It is...
May 27, 2021 | Azure, backup, cybersecurity, mail, Microsoft, OneDrive, security, web_services
Educate. Encourage. Enforce. It’s all about security. That’s today’s job for a small business IT consultant. There’s been a consistent curve to technology adoption over the years: enterprises build their businesses around giant-sized technology-based processes, then...
May 16, 2021 | business, cybersecurity, law, news, security
Ransomware is big business. I mean that in the most boring way possible. Have you been following the news about the Colonial Pipeline hack? There is a nuance that sheds much light on the modern world, but to get to it I need to be sure you have the basic facts of...
