“Critical Security Controls,” a phrase coined by the Center for Internet Security (CIS), is a high-tech, nerdy way of saying, “super-important things you really, really, really, really need to do.” They’re not kidding around, either; you really do need to do them. The...
I am often asked, “Is Facebook safe?” Facebook, the most popular social networking website in the world, claims almost 30 percent of the world’s population as members. Just like the world’s population, it can be both safe and dangerous at the...
Computers past their prime are often retired for a variety of reasons. Even though all computers can be fixed, sometimes perfectly good, functional computers are declared obsolete by their makers. For example, Microsoft waves its wand and announces your computer is...
Most folks who use a “real” computer to access the Internet (as opposed to using a phone) do it with a single piece of software: the mighty “browser.” Strangely, though, most people don’t even know that’s what they are doing. Even...