Safer Computing 

I could say, "That's it.  That's the post."  But I won't leave it at that.  I will elaborate, because I feel I owe everyone a logical explanation of what MFA is, why it's so important, and how to do it right.   MFA stands for Multi-Factor…

The information security blog you know and love is on the way back! The older posts may take a while - they have to be recovered from an imperfect backup one at a time, by hand :/ 

It's an established fact that any headline in the form of a yes/no question can safely be answered, "no." And so it is with today's post, as you will see. One of the things we humans have to watch out for is, who can use…

3-2-1 is the watchword for how to do backups. I have written about this a lot, as I consider it the most basic of security basics. If your data is backed up offsite, ransomware can't get to it, fire and flood can't get to it.

On Dec 14 the FCC carried out its corporate masters' plan to gut net neutrality, responding to millions of astroturfed "comments" from dead people, etc. This action made the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation all the more critical. On Feb 7, one of the…