If your computer uses Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, and you are not prepared, you may be in for a shock, come April 8, 2014. Microsoft is going to throw you under the bus. About three weeks from now, on April 8, 2014, Microsoft will end all support...
Remember the great Target Stores credit card hack of 2013? 110 million Target customers, including myself, had their credit card information put at risk and/or stolen last November and December because of Target’s crummy network security practices. Do you...
Back in “the old days” (for me, the early 1990s) when the Internet started becoming popular, most folks didn’t much care about things like computer viruses, email scams, online criminals or the Russian Mafia. Sure, there were problems here and there...
Most everyone these days uses some sort of wireless network to distribute an Internet connection around their house or business to multiple devices. Most people also know they should password-protect their wireless network to keep away unwanted guests. But, what if...
Last week, we looked at the origin of the word “hacker” and how most people have come to equate it with “computer criminal.” Even with that knowledge, though, they still don’t know what these bad-guy hackers actually do. How do hackers...
