According to security experts polled in a recent Google Study, the two best ways to stay safe online are to keep your operating system and applications patched by running updates when prompted, and by using a password management tool, such as LastPass. 32% of security professionals said that running updates was the most important and effective security practice.
Unfortunately, ...
Continue Reading →This spring I bought a new Kia Forte that came with a whole lot of electronic goodies including Bluetooth synchronization, voice command, and driver programmable features galore. And evidently, the potential to be hacked.
This is old news now, but security researchers were able to hack a Jeep Cherokee through the on-board Internet connectivity feature called “UConnect.”
Continue Reading →“They were able to change the temperature of the air conditioning, turn on the windshield wipers and blast the wiper fluid to blur the ...
Last week we talked about the impossibility of keeping secrets over the long term, the liberation of secret information by groups or individuals who just wanted the secrets exposed. A close cousin, conceptually, is privacy. At this point, there is no privacy anymore, not really.
Time was when your life was largely unknown, and privacy was an easy thing to have. But this ...
Continue Reading →These jokes are G-rated. Courtesy of my friend Aaron Miller of Miller Bros Auto, “the best place in town to take a leak.”
Q: What do you call a fake noodle?
A: An impasta
Q: Why shouldn’t you write with a broken pencil?
A: Because it’s pointless.
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Q: What word is ...
Continue Reading →Hacker movies are one of my favorite genres, and have been for a long time. Go figure. One of my favorites from the “olden days” is the 1992 movie “Sneakers.” In this movie Robert Redford and his merry band of cybersecurity testers are tasked with the recovery of a mysterious “black box” which basically can solve for any type of encryption that was in use at that time. At one point in the movie the blind hacker discovers ...
Continue Reading →This article is largely reposted from other blog on WyzGuys.com.
This alert was added after the originally article posted – there does seem to be a small group of people have problems with the upgrade, and it seems to be affecting Asus branded computers and computers with solid state drives or SSD (flash) hard drives. If you fall in those groups, you might want to wait a bit.
Like many in my profession, I have been
EMV or “chip and PIN” cards have a much higher level of security built right into the card, and have been in common use in Europe for over a decade. For some reason (too expensive to implement? Really?) the United States has continued to use the horribly insecure magnetic stripe credit card, which is why exploits like the Target Christmas card breach are even possible.
On October 1st, the United States will FINALLY ...
Continue Reading →Are you an over-sharer? Giving away too much personal information? Well, here’s something else to think about. From Pinterest
