Happy Independence Day

I am taking a break from my normal publishing routine to celebrate the founding of our country by the scruffy band of traitors, insurgents, and terrorists, led by rich, white slaveholders, that put their lives at stake to create this great nation.

As far as the English Crown was concerned, they were a bunch of traitors and rabble-rousers.   One man’s terrorist is another ...

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JUL
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News and politics

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Protect Yourself From Cyber Scams – Part 2

In our last post we looked at common web and phone based scams that I have seen personally, or have been targeted at a client.  Today we will examine other scams that are popular with cyber-criminals.

Some of these are targeted at specific industries or at people in positions of leadership or ownership of an organization or business.

  • Charity scams ...
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JUN
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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, social engineering

Using a Password Manager to Improve Password Security

Two weeks ago when we started this series on password security, we revealed some sad statistics.  60% of people use the same password on multiple accounts.  The average person has 26 password protected accounts, but only used 5 passwords across those accounts.  And 85% of people keep track of passwords through memorization.

People reuse passwords just because it is easier.  I get it, I have over 100 password protected accounts (not 26) and it is not possible for me to keep ...

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JUN
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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, encryption, passwords

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