Mar 24, 2022 | cybersecurity, law, news, Politics, security
A lot of experts expected Russia to start its assault on Ukraine with a massive shock-and-awe cyberattack – turning off the country’s electricity, killing the Internet and phones, emptying all the bank accounts, causing planes to fall from the sky. Instead, Russia...
Jan 5, 2022 | Microsoft, security, Windows10, Windows11
When you try to log into a Windows PC, you may be missing the option to type in a password. See the screenshot above? Those three icons are for a fingerprint, PIN, or facial recognition. No password! There is a relatively new setting that is responsible. I’m going to...
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...
