You know the feeling: you go to open up Facebook, Amazon, a work-related website, or even worse, your own company website, and get the message that the “page cannot be displayed.” Frustrated, you immediately pick up the phone and call your web host or “IT guy” and complain that your website is offline. He calmly […]
I’ve written extensively on why administrative rights are bad, and how to drop administrative rights if you have them, but it occurred to me that I never told you how to just see if you have administrative rights in the first place, so shame on me! Here’s how: In any desktop version of Windows (XP, […]
When you work in your browser, you may have a number of tabs constantly open in the same window. For example, you may have Gmail open, Google Drive, etc. If you close the window, you will no doubt need to open the tabs again and again, which can be frustrating. To make browser use easier, […]
Years ago, we blogged about why having administrative rights over your computer is not the great thing that it sounds like. A recent study by Avecto underscores this point and reminds us why you don’t want them (all the time). The study states “Analysis of Microsoft Security Bulletins from 2013 highlights that 92% of Critical […]
“We’re too small to be a target.” “Nobody wants what we have.” “Nobody cares about our systems.” “There isn’t enough money in our bank account for anyone to want.” These are all phrases that clients of mine have uttered during meetings on the topic of information security. But even if you think have nothing anyone […]
Like many small businesses, we use an online bill pay service, which integrates with our accounting package. While reconciling our checking account, I recently discovered that there were several duplicate payments which had been debited from our account. After calling the bill pay service, who transferred me to our accounting package’s support team, who wanted […]
We get a lot of email. A lot of email. And sadly, a lot of them come in without useful subject lines.
Free security options rarely offer the multi-layered security that business requires. At the same time, enterprise options are expensive and complicated. And the stuff that comes bundled with your new computer? That just won’t cut it.
Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint scanner is little, round, innocuous looking Rorschach test. Stare into its unflinching gaze and you’ll see wonder, terror, good security, no security, a social revolution, or a lie being foisted on the smartphone buying public by Apple, depending on your background, biases, and philosophical inclinations.
After a couple recent repairs to my vehicle, I decided to have it appraised for a possible trade-in. I was rather pleasantly surprised to find that, after 8 years, my Subaru is still worth about 1/6th its original retail value. Not too bad! I also realized that my own desktop PC at the office is […]