Trusting the Social Security Administration?
The US Social Security Administration does a poor job of computer security. Surprised?
The US Social Security Administration does a poor job of computer security. Surprised?
My ISP goes offline in the middle of the night, but there is work to do that can't wait...
Small businesses are hit by ransomware. The New York Times says they should increase their computer security. I say this misses the real problem: backup, backup, backup.
A recent article on surge protectors just adds to the difficulty.
Wi-Fi can be done securely, even at a hacker conference like DEF CON. Just avoid open networks and Android.
Lenovo pre-installing Superfish software was a security disaster. Whether Lenovo was evil, or, as they eventually claimed, merely incompetent, it's hard to trust them going forward. If nothing else, their initial denials that anything was wrong, leave a lasting impression. Of course, Superfish, along with the software that they bundled from Komodia, also deserve plenty of blame for breaking the security of HTTPS and SSL/TLS.
I recently responded to a prompt from the Chrome browser (on Windows 7) without fully understanding the question. Lesson learned, the hard way. This carelessness wiped out my carefully curated bookmarks, which had never been backed up.
I'm sick of Java, as you probably are too. That said, there have been a number of changes to Java lately that may have flown under the radar. So, here is what you need to know about where things stand.