Tag Archives: security

How To Handle A Hack: Blizzard in 2012

In 2012, game developers were beginning to experiment with a principle known as “always on”. [...]

Internet Of Things Items Can Create Vulnerability

Internet of Things items are convenient, otherwise they wouldn’t be selling. At least not next [...]

A Phishing Refresher

How To Avoid it in the First Place There are a few key tips that [...]

Using Biometrics: Is It Really Better?

Some phones allow users to use their biometric data as 2FA, or as a password [...]

What is a Browser Cookie?

A browser cookie is a little snippet of data that the browser stores while the [...]

How Does A Hacker Use Public WiFi?

Ads for VPNs give their two biggest benefits as often as they can: that you [...]

Smishing (SMS Phishing)

Do you get strange solicitations for all sorts of things in your messages? Are you [...]

What Does Incognito Mode Actually Do?

You might have heard it in advice: “You should always look at airline tickets in [...]

Please, Don’t Just Scan That QR Code

The Past and Present of Random Links Before the age of built in antivirus and [...]

Consider a Password Manager

Alongside 2FA, making a difficult-to-guess password can stop a staggering number of cyberattacks, both brute-force [...]