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
Can Your Anonymous Data Be Re-identified?
You supply data and are told it is being anonymized or de-identified for privacy. How effective is de-identification?
Enable automatic updates
Auto-updates have bricked phones and shut down productive work sessions, so people turn them off. Why this logic is wrong for solos & small businesses.
The Case for Password Managers
Keeping passwords digitally stored in one place seems anathema. Here’s why you should do just that.
What Is “Juice Jacking” & How to Avoid It
You like to travel light–no bulky wall wart for you–and besides, why search for an out-of-the-way wall outlet in public spaces when charging kiosks seem to proliferate in almost every public space. Even hotel rooms are sporting more charging docks than outlets. The challenge is that the same cable that charges your device also transfers
The Growing Employer-Employee Cybersecurity Gap: What It Is and How to Bridge It
Employers face a growing disconnect with employees in terms of overall cybersecurity, creating a dangerous gap. Here’s how large that gap has grown.
That Ad Blocker You Installed? #Malware.
This week, Threatpost reported Google removed two ad blocking browser extensions from the Chrome Web Store, AdBlock and uBlock. These two malicious browser extensions use names similar to legitimate ad blockers (AdBlock by getadblock, uBlock.org’s uBlock, and Raymond Hill’s uBlock Origin), but they employ the fraudulent practice of “cookie stuffing.” That is, they change the
Yesterday, I went to the gym. And, as I have many times before, I looked down at the elliptical machine’s screen and reminded myself to delete the gym app account I no longer use (because it works great for the cardio machines, but is not so great at tracking weight work). But, unlike so many