7 Easy Steps for Working Securely from Home
Your home setup is likely far less secure than you think. Here are 7 easy steps for working securely from home.
Your Consultants & Employees Are Broadcasting Your Company Secrets Every Day
Are your contractors, consultants, and employees adequately protecting your sensitive information and intellectual property when they work from home?
How You Are (Unknowingly) Perpetuating Online Tracking with Links
If safeguarding your privacy is important to you, you are aware of tracking and avoid it whenever possible. After all, where you go on the internet, what you read, what you buy, is nobody’s business but your own. But it’s likely you have other interests as well, and you also share links about your interests
One Nation, Tracked
Since One Nation, Tracked was published in The New York Times last month, The Washington Post has published an investigation into how colleges across the United States are using short-range phone sensors and campus-wide wi-fi networks to track students. Here’s what these investigations found and why it matters.
The CCPA: What It Is, What It Means, and What You Can Do
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) raises the bar on consumer privacy, but since the bar is already set so low, does it really matter? Yes. Here’s what it is, what it means, and what you can do.
Protecting Your Home Office from Your Smart Home
Update 01 November 2020 The Threat Intelligence Report 2020 (released last week—a brief summary can be found here) reported that IoT infections on wireless networks (including home networks) is up 100% over last year. Shockingly, these devices that blend into your daily life are not just leaky boats, they are targets for ransomware. Unless you
Don’t Catastrophize!
The rise of cybercrime—and the realization that bad actors increasingly target small businesses—can lead freelancers and solopreneurs to feel overwhelmed and vulnerable. Some bury their head in the sand and try to ignore the threat, while others let anxiety take over. They consider worst-case scenarios to be probable instead of possible, which can be the
Upgrading Your Phone? 4 Things You Should Do First
Getting a new phone for the holidays? Before your dispose of it, give it to one of your kids, or trade it in for credit toward a new phone, the FTC suggests you do these 4 things first: Back up your data. Remove SIM and SD cards Erase your personal information. Verify that your personal