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Talking Backups On the Every Day Cyber Podcast

ByMike McBride January 8, 2022January 8, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of being invited to chat about backup strategies for consumers and small businesses with the hosts of the Every Day Cyber podcast

The bottom line? – Some backup is better than none. Multiple copies in various locations and states of being connected to the internet are better.

You can listen in to the discussion between myself, Diana Kelly, and Limor Kessem. Or, if you know someone who should know more about backups, please share it with them!

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All I can say is "Wow"
ByMike McBride February 28, 2008July 22, 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

Steven Vore sent me this link about what Thomas Stromberg found on a computer that was sitting out for the trash after he took it home to see if he could salvage any parts from it. Buying a computer for your bustling property management company in 1998: $500 City of Roswell Garbage Pickup Cost: $22/mo…

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Linked – Google Home is playing audio ads for Beauty and the Beast
ByMike McBride March 21, 2017March 21, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

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…

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Be careful with distribution lists
ByMike McBride April 21, 2007July 19, 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

I was reminded of this when I got back from vacation. Since I wasn’t going to be working at the help desk, they removed me from the “Helpdesk” Exchange distribution list Monday morning. Unfortunately, we used that group as a member of every other list I was supposed to be on so I didn’t get…

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Race for the Cure -May 17th 2008
ByMike McBride April 8, 2008July 20, 2014 Reading Time: 2 minutes

With the weather turning toward Spring this week, and the rain holding off until tomorrow, I decided it was high time to get in a little walking to prepare for my commitment to walk the 5k Race for the Cure next month. Thanks to Gmaps Pedometer I can go back and figure out how far…

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The Innocent Victims of the Sony Hack
ByMike McBride December 11, 2014January 19, 2017 Reading Time: 2 minutes

This is no joke. This is a risk all of us face, every single day, whether it’s with a work or a personal email account. We communicate electronically all the time. We share intimate details of our lives with the recipients of our messages assuming that it’ll never be public. It’s not social media after all. But if the network that stuff is sitting on gets hacked, it’s open season on whatever information you have there.

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Linked – CIOs recalibrate IT agendas to make room for rising AI spend
ByMike McBride April 15, 2025April 15, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

I probably haven’t been thinking enough about how the budget for AI might come at the cost of several other IT projects and what that might mean in terms of old, insecure, and inefficient technology not being replaced.

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