Whether it’s wildfires in California, storms hitting the Carolinas, or gas lines blowing up houses in Massachusetts, current events remind us that having a few extra supplies ready can make things much easier in case of an emergency. The site ready.gov is a good starting point. The following list is from their page on building …
Yesterday, Equifax admitted publicly that they were breached, and that personal information was exposed for 143,000,000 U.S. Consumers. While this is not the largest data breach in number of records exposed, it is arguably the worst data breach ever due to the type of data that criminals accessed. Whether or not you believe that your information …
The Equifax Breach: Why it’s big, and how to stay safe. Read More »
As we continue to use services of different companies, we end up with more and more accounts. Getting control of all of those accounts can be a very difficult task. Here we mention one method and explain an second one in detail. Both will work, but each one has strengths and weaknesses. The list of …
Many accounts permit or require users to answer so-called “secret questions”. The idea is that you can provide answers to questions so that they can verify that it’s you answering the questions. Unfortunately for most of these questions the answers are easily obtained by an attacker. Here we discuss how to prevent those attacks so …
With our continued reliance on passwords, it is still a good idea to select good, secure, and memorable passwords. It’s also very important to change them periodically. We’ll cover some suggestions on selecting good passwords that naturally expire, and we’ll cover a bit about password safety. There is no such thing as the perfect password, …