“I want to know what breaches like this mean to me. Me personally. Me professionally. I’ve been using Yahoo since 1999. And AOL before that. And Prodigy before that. And the Europa BBS service from my Commodore64 in 1988 before that. That’s a long history on the Internet and its predecessors. What should I do differently going forward to minimize my exposure when things like this happen? Here are 6 ideas to keep yourself and your family safe(r) in the future.”
These aren’t bad ideas. If you’ve been around here long there’s nothing in here you haven’t seen me suggest before. But, if you haven’t taken some time to take some of these steps to protect yourself, take a look!
You know what? This is something that, no matter how many times I’ve done presentations or been asked to write an introduction of myself for a company site, or to include in an RFP, I absolutely hate. Mostly because I’m not good at it and don’t like talking about myself. But maybe, I am going…
Fact – Google is an advertising company first and foremost. Fact – When you decide to use a Google product, it will track everything it knows about you in an effort to “provide useful information” to you, whether it is actually a paid ad or not, and you may not know the difference. That’s kind…
Yeah the new Dell is working out pretty well. I’d forgotten how much work is involved in getting a new PC configured properly. I’d also forgotten how much junk gets pre-installed when you buy an OEM PC. I think I’ve uninstalled most of the trial versions of stuff I have no use for, like AOL,…
The growing supply of IoT malware is creating a tipping point in the denial-of-service domain that’s giving relatively unsophisticated actors capabilities that were once reserved only for the most elite of attackers. And that, in turn, represents a threat to the Internet as we know it. “The biggest threats as far as I’m concerned in…
So this is a problem, right?: Why is it then, that fully 40 percent of companies do not have a formal information governance policy? Half of these have no plan or intention to implement one. And it’s not just a problem in terms of eDiscovery, cost of storage, search-ability, or security. It cuts across all…
Housebound Blues: Considering the Privacy and Data Security Consequences of Remote Work Tips for Working from Home (From a Guy Who’s Been Doing It for a Decade) The Ongoing Battle Over How ESI is Produced: eDiscovery Trends, Part Three Teleconferencing Tips: Are You Ready for your Closeup? Nuix articles on the use of photographs as…
