5 Tips to Improve the Security of your Business
I don’t know about you, but as a business owner that offers a service to clients in which they instill their trust in us, there is nothing that worries me... Read More The post 5 Tips to Improve the...
View ArticleHow To Encrypt Gmail Emails Using Mailvelope
Over the past couple of years we’ve been reminded time and time again of how susceptible our communication mediums are to prying eyes. Classic examples of its susceptibility can be seen... Read More...
View ArticleDefense in Depth And Website Security
The concept of Defense in Depth is not new. It’s been leveraged in the InfoSec domain for a long time, and has it’s roots deeply embedded in military strategy and... Read More The post Defense in Depth...
View ArticleGood Password Hygiene Requires Behavior Changes and Password Managers
For years I advocated the importance of good hygiene. The importance of using complex, long and unique passwords. But where this approach falls short is that it’s dependent on one... Read More The post...
View ArticleCreating a Safe Online Experience At Home
As a parent, and a technologist, I struggle with creating a safe online experience at home. I’m constantly playing with different technologies – hardware and software – trying to find... Read More The...
View ArticleThe 2018 Facebook Data Breach
On September 28th, 2018, Facebook announced it’s biggest data breach to date. They estimated 50 million accounts were affected at the time of the disclosure. Subsequent to the disclosure, security......
View ArticleHow HTTPS Works – Let’s Establish a Secure Connection
The need to use HTTPS on your website has been spearheaded by Google for years (since 2014), and in 2018 we saw massive improvements as more of the web became... Read More The post How HTTPS Works –...
View ArticleA Primer on DNS and Security
If you’re reading this article you’ve interacted with DNS. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to spend any time online and not interact with DNS. Many of us spend very... Read More The post A Primer on DNS...
View ArticleHow to enable 2FA on Twitter with Authy, Google Authenticator or another...
It’s been a long time since I have had to enable 2FA on Twitter and found the process completely infuriating. Twitter’s 2FA configuration uses SMS as the default option, this... Read More The post How...
View ArticleLeveraging DNS to Enhance Your Networks Security
DNS is the internets lookup table, it builds a bridge between the domain name (e.g., perezbox.com) and the IP address (e.g., 184.24.56.17). The IP address being where you can find... Read More The post...
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