why you should be using a password manager unknowingly Every few weeks, we hear the news that another major corporation and its website has been hacked, just last week we heard about Equifax being hacked and data on millions of users being compromised. We of course only hear about the major newsworthy hacks which have been discovered or disclosed, but the scary truth is that around 30,000 websites are hacked every single day. Often these hacks mean your personal information has...
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Cyber Security: How to protect your kids online
To be blunt (no insult intended), most parents are not very computer literate and are also oblivious to the dangers of letting their kids loose on the Internet without supervision or protection. This is not specifically because you are parents but simply a statistic based on research that shows that 69% of the population are not very computer literate and 26% cannot use a computer at all. It is also based on my 18 years as a parent and dealing with schools and other...
Linux can be hacked using only the backspace key
As any I.T. person will know, Linux geeks consider Linux to be the most secure OS on the planet, and many will even claim it is so secure and un-hackable that they do not need any malware protection or such. So it is ironic that a Linux hack has now been discovered which is probably the worst and simplest hack ever discovered, far worse than any hack or vulnerability ever discovered for Windows. If you press the backspace key 28 times on a locked-down Linux machine you want to access, a Grub2...
Parents Beware! Microsoft Family Safety is broken, your kids are not protected.
Like many parents, I have been using Microsoft Family Safety on my kids computers for several years now to keep them safe online by restricting what websites they can view, blocking adult content, restrict what apps they can use etc. I also used family safety to control my kids screen time, so that they could not spend all day/night on the computer frying their brains and eyesight, or use it after bedtime. By default, we gave all our kids ZERO screen time each day, and then used the...
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