by Terry McAdams | Oct 30, 2024 | privacy, Security, Tip
All those data breaches are coming back to haunt us. Once our phone numbers and addresses began to be leaked, it was only a matter of time before scammers would personalize their attacks to make them seem more real. The latest “sextortion” scams purport to have...
by Terry McAdams | Oct 18, 2024 | How-To, password manager, passwords, privacy, Security
Although we’re still fans of 1Password, and there are plenty of other good password managers out there, like BitWarden and Dashlane, Apple has finally removed the last hurdle to using its built-in password management capabilities. Starting in macOS 15 Sequoia, iOS 18,...
by Terry McAdams | Sep 20, 2024 | Mac, passwords, Security, Tip
Although paying attention to online security is of primary importance, don’t forget local security. You don’t want to go out for lunch and let someone wandering by your office poke through your email, messages, photos, and private files. To ensure this doesn’t happen,...
by Terry McAdams | Sep 18, 2024 | Security, Tip
We’ve written in the past about how Apple-only companies can protect themselves from ransomware (strong security, isolated backups, monitoring software), but realistically, it’s primarily a threat to computers running Windows and Linux. If you, or anyone you know, is...
by Terry McAdams | Sep 12, 2024 | privacy, Security, Tip
A few months ago, news broke about the latest massive data breach, this time from a company called National Public Data, a company that collects vast amounts of personal data about individuals from public data sources, including addresses, employment history, criminal...
by Terry McAdams | Sep 4, 2024 | Camera, iPhone, Security, Tip
QR codes, those square, blocky codes you scan with your iPhone’s camera to load a Web page, have become ubiquitous. So much so that we seldom pause before scanning any QR code we see. But if you think about it, that’s the same as clicking random links in emails or...
