Attackers prey on people trusting others. Watch out for these three common tricks. 1. Refuse to permit tech support to access your computer to help you. If this is your known service provider, then maybe you will decide to trust them. However, nobody else. Last week,...
After last week’s post about the stolen Google and Gmail passwords, one of our valued subscribers wrote back asking why it isn’t Google’s fault that the passwords were stolen. I know – it would be so easy to blame Google. Those passwords were...
This applies to everyone, not just Gmail users. A researcher at Hold Security bought 272 million stolen passwords on the dark web. Some of the credentials were for Gmail. This is not Google’s fault. Whether you use Gmail or not, everyone, if they haven’t already,...
Here is another powerful way to strengthen security – upgrade to the newest versions. Just like last week, your key tool will be your application inventory. It will look something like this… The application inventory shows how many machines have a specific program...
