Should I hide my personal information online?
I recently had a question asked of me, and I’ll try to sum it up here: “If I’m going public and posting content on YouTube and other Social Media sites, how worried should I be about this increasing my vulnerability to hackers and getting compromised? Should I be locking my personal Social Media Pages away […]
Why do people ignore backing up their data?
Ah, a question as old as computers themselves! Since the dawn of modern machines there has been one constant among users, and that is most of them never bother to back up their data. This is one thing I’ve never truly understood. You lock your house when you leave, make extra copies of important documents and […]
Why do people tend to ignore security when it comes to using technology?
Why is it that most people, when they leave home, lock the doors to their home, apartment, quonset hut or what have you? It’s because not that someone is going to attempt to break in the moment they leave, but it’s the smart thing to do to discourage those that MAY look to take advantage […]
Please start using Multi-Factor (or 2 factor) authentication!
I can’t tell you how many times I see a post like “Don’t respond if I friend you” or “I’ve been hacked!” or some other clear indication of a lack of priority on security. I get it, we’re all busy, we all want what we want when we want it and don’t want to be […]