Tag Archives: security

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 [...]

What is a DOS Attack, Really?

DoS stands for ‘Denial of Service’. What this means is that someone plans to deny [...]

Social Engineering as a Hacking Tool

You may have heard by now that LastPass suffered a pretty big breach, although thankfully [...]

Sony: DRM Overkill

In 2005, an organization had been covertly installing a program similar to a rootkit onto [...]

Public Risks to Your Machine

1) Public Wifi If you’ve been online in the past few years, you’ve likely seen [...]

What is DDoSing?

DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service, and it’s usually used to mean that a [...]

The Fun World of Firefox Browser Addons

With the recent announcement that Chrome is gutting ad blockers, it’s never been a better [...]