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Our Smart TVs Are Watching Us?
Here’s how we can start taking our privacy back.
How To Protect Yourself From SIM Swapping
These crimes are on the rise. Here’s what you need to know.
The Dark Web Is An Onion
The Internet everyday people know through Google and Bing is less than 20% of the total number of sites that exist on the Internet. What is the Dark Web, anyway?
The Definitive Guide to DMARC
Advanced email security in one post that covers how SPF and DKIM can be combined to support DMARC.
SecTor 2019 Redux
My pal, Kim Crawley, wrote about her experience at SecTor in Toronto and was kind enough to include me in it.
DNS-over-HTTPS + PiHole = Better Privacy?
Until companies design products and services with them in mind, the work of protecting our privacy and security falls on consumers like you and I.
Not Your Grampa’s Keyboard
We don’t have to use lame, beige, joyless keyboards. Well, not unless we want to.
Data Rights Are Human Rights
The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 2020. Here’s what you need to know.
“What’s a ‘botnet’?”
Robot networks or botnets have quickly grown in popularity among criminals. Here’s why and what you can do about it.
Data Flow Diagrams Improve Everything
Data flow diagrams quickly improve operational resilience. Here are some quick-win places to start.
The FBI Wants You to Report Fraud
No matter how small.
What To Maybe Not Ask Santa For This Year.
As ever, there are some things kids might ask for this year that might not be the best choice.
Grace Hopper on Letterman
Some heavy gratitude to John Feminella (@jxxf), Jeff Roberson (@jeffroberson), and @snipeyhead for sharing their inspiring conversation via twitter today that turned me onto this incredible clip.
Speaking of Hackers
I may not like the stigma but suppose it’s time to admit to myself that, yeah, I’ve been a hacker for as long as I can remember.
Know Thy Self: How Criminals Learn About You
Information about you is already out there. Here’s knowledge you can use to control it better and make it harder for criminals to target you.
Let’s Talk About Penetration Testing.
I recently had the pleasure of assembling + moderating an industry panel of leading experts to discuss Penetration Testing. Heaps of gratitude to Dawid Balut, Mattia Campagnano, Kimber Dowsett, Chris Roberts + Georgia Weidman for sharing their well-grounded thoughts on an often polarizing topic.
Farmers Fight for Our Right to Hack
Farmers survive by quickly learning how to do many things. Out of necessity in this high-tech era, they’ve also become hackers.
“Do It Yourself” (DIY) vs. “Do It Together” (DIT)
Tired: DIY (Do-It-Yourself)
Wired: DIT (Do-It-Together)
Level Up: Data Classification
Level up your resilience to fraud, identity theft, global events & more.
I didn’t go to university. I learned from Linux instead.
TOUGH CHOICES When I chose to forego college, preferring instead to join the working world confident that doors would open, there were a lot of the kinds of reactions one might expect. Most asked things like: “what are you thinking?” “why would you do such a thing?” “what are you planning to do instead?” My…