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Before You Sell or Give Away That Smart Home Device…

ByMike McBride May 18, 2019May 17, 2019 Reading Time: 1 minute

Do you know how much information is stored on a device like the Google Home or Amazon Echo?

Before you decide to get rid of it, by donating, or handing it down to a friend, you may want to check out this article:

Your smart speakers are listening: Wipe them clean before giving them away. Here’s how

I mean it would be embarrassing if they could just access all the information about your home, and account, wouldn’t it? Don’t let that happen, learn how to reset it before you let it go.

That goes for all of your tech, by the way.

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Linked – Your ‘Smart’ Power Outlets Are Now Botnets Thanks To The Internet Of Broken Things
ByMike McBride August 24, 2016August 23, 2016 Reading Time: 2 minutes

“Making fun of the Internet of Things has become a sort of national pastime, made possible by a laundry list of companies jumping into the space without the remotest idea what they’re actually doing. When said companies aren’t busy promoting some of the dumbest ideas imaginable, they’re making it abundantly clear that the security of…

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Linked – New botnet targets password recycling
ByMike McBride May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 Reading Time: 1 minute

A new botnet has been discovered that takes login credentials from a less-secure site and tests them on banking and financial transactions sites, leaving users who reuse the same password across sites vulnerable to attack. This isn’t good. Let’s try and not use the same password on multiple sites people, especially if it’s a site…

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Linked – Holiday Inn Cops to Massive Credit Card Data Breach
ByMike McBride April 23, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

And another one…. It seems like every day there’s news of another significant data breach, so here’s today’s: An internal investigation by the InterContinental Hotel Group, which owns Holiday Inn, has revealed that guests at more than a thousand of their hotels had their credit card details stolen. The company identified malware on front desk…

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Old backup tapes, why keep them?
ByMike McBride December 3, 2007July 20, 2014 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Had an interesting thought the other day when talking to an attorney about e-discovery. We were talking about a situation that I’ve seen in the tech world all too often, where you have backup tapes, or other program data sitting around, with no way to actually read the data. Either the tapes are for a…

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Rethinking Younger Employees
ByMike McBride March 10, 2010March 10, 2010 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Recently, I wrote quite a bit about the misconception that younger employees are automatically more technically qualified when it comes to understanding things like electronic discovery. As I said at the time, The ability to use an iPhone has nothing to do with knowing how to create a data-map, a deep understanding of PST files,…

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Little Projects
ByMike McBride August 29, 2006July 19, 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve been keeping busy with some little projects, things like adding the Friends in Tech logo to the top of the page, to officially “flag” myself as a member of that group as well as thinking about ways to leverage the group resources there to benefit the readers here and visa versa, or adding Google…

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