Why Multi-Factor Authentication? Online accounts are frequent targets of attack, and attackers obtain or guess passwords in many ways, some of which are obvious and some of which are more sneaky. But the fact is, just a password is not enough to truly verify your...
What is it? Earlier this month, a vulnerability was announced in an open-source logging utility from Apache called “log4j” that is used extensively in many applications, both web-based and in locally-installed computer software. A patch was immediately available...
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. A lesser-known but very important component of online security is a password manager. Most people have one, two, or maybe three passwords they use for all of their online accounts. These are easy to remember...
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Ransomware, which has become a huge problem in the last few years, is when an attacker gets in your computer and locks up your files so you can’t get them without paying a ransom. Check out this quick video tip...
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. You can greatly help your online security by enabling two-factor authentication (sometimes known as multi-factor authentication, or 2FA/MFA) on all of your email, social media, web sites, and work accounts. Check out...
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. One of several tips I want to mention this month is about phishing. Phishing as it relates to email is an attacker sending an email message to you pretending to be legitimate, but really trying to steal your...