The Future of the IoT A few days ago we wrote about the lack of security on the IoT (The Internet of Things), and on Friday, the USA got a quick lesson in just how vulnerable the IoT is. We also learned how the IoT’s generally lax secuity, can affect the Internet’s biggest, most successful Web sites, a well… Read More »
Password Fun Every few months we like to impress upon you the benefits of using secure passwords. And every six months or so, we know our advice is falling on deaf ears. But we’re nothing if not intrepid. Today, we’re going to have fun with passwords. So even if you don’t take our warnings about using secure passwords… Read More »
Knowledge Can Keep You Safe Online Malware, Rasomware, Identity Theft and You Believe us when we say, we subscribe to a few tech newsletters. And it irks us no end when a newsletter constantly tries to scare its readers with one scary article after another. We don’t want to scare you, we just want to inform you. If… Read More »
Slimeballs Inc. – The Anatomy of a Scam As someone who, along with Darcy, works on dozens of PCs each week, I can tell you from personal experience there are a lot of people getting scammed every day – and not just for a couple of bucks – but for hundreds of dollars. Sometimes I tend to think… Read More »
Export Your Gmail Contacts If you’ve been using Gmail for a while, you have probably built quite a list of contacts (Address Book). If you’d like to export your contacts for use in a desktop email program or other application, you’ll be glad to know it’s really easy to do. Here’s how: Log-in to your Gmail account. Right… Read More »
If Something Happens to You, What Happens to Your Google Account? Although we don’t like to think about the inevitable, we will all eventually escape the charades of Microsoft and go to that big, happy computer in the sky. And if that should happen unexpectedly, what happens to all the stuff you left behind on Gmail, Google Docs,… Read More »