As alt-coins get more popular, particularly Bitcoin, Litecoin, Etherium, and their lesser but also well-known counterparts Doge and Dash, cyber-criminals have found new wealth to extract from people’s machines. It should be noted that over the past decade or more, cyber-criminals realized they could get far more cash by searching…
Category: Internet Safety
2016’s First Horror Story! Brought to you by – The Microsoft Corporation!
*heavy sigh*! If you prefer to have choice. If you like one operating system more than another and want the freedom to stick with the OS of your choice, then read what follows in this particular note, Very Carefully! The last time I shared concerns about Windows 10 was back…
Merry Grinchmas! I mean, Merry Scroogemas! No, that doesn’t sound right either. . . Merry Con-mas???
Sorry to inform you, but the Trick or Treat season hasn’t let up for some people out there, in spite of the changing decor, candy wrapping, and music playing on the radio. Ok ok, how about Happy Hack-u-hahaha! That wasn’t funny you say? Then how does Happy Crypto-a sound? Sorry,…
Encrypting your files can be a good thing! Unless it’s done THIS way!
It’s that time of year again, when the first of four company newsletters go out to both existing clients and the public via this page here on Facebook. Stuff like what I’m about to share with you is starting to happen often enough that it’s causing me to reconsider the…
Certify a Clean Bill of Health for Your Laptop and/or Computer! If you don’t, you’ll be sorry!
First came Sony with their DRM fiasco. Then came Microsoft with their XBox debacle. Samsung entered the ring with their spying “smart tv’s” and the ink on that news hardly dries before Lenovo joins the band doing their best to ensure their products are held suspect as well! Thursday, February…
Your Browser and the Criminal
No, this is not some new book, movie, or play at the local theatre, although the way criminals have been doing their best to take advantage of browser exploits over the past few years, such a TV Sitcom could be produced I’m sure. No, this is a very real correlation…
A Techie’s Christmas Tale
I wrote this a few years ago, back when Blaster was still a big threat and so was Stubby. As those names have faded into the background, it was time to do some minor updating of this tongue-in-cheek look at the life of a tech at Christmastime. Enjoy. The week…
Working with Tech is necessary to Write about it!
Wow. . . As a technician and an author, from time to time a thought enters my head, or an article about some issue crosses my screen, and I feel the urge to write about it! The technician side of me realizes that for my author side to truly put…
Your Choice of Browser and Your Safety!
Oh the wonderful world of web browsers! Those handy yet somehow invisible pieces of software (ask 5 friends what browser they use to get online and maybe one or two will tell you without any hints) open up the entire world to us in more ways than we initially see…
Mobile Security – Take it Seriously!
No we haven’t been taken over by humanoid androids. Apples aren’t falling from trees. . . Ok, perhaps in someone’s orchard here in the Okanagan they are. . . Blackberries will only stain your hand if they are the organic type, and you can still see through windows, unless they…