Mike Foster’s IT Security & Best Practices Blog

Whether you use an Android or Apple phone, Apple created a short 2-minute video that explains a new privacy feature. The knowledge in the video explains privacy concerns that Android users need to know about too: Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency feature prompts you to allow apps to share your information. Google is working on […]

Hackers competing in this year’s PWN2OWN competition earned hundreds of thousands of dollars. Who paid them?

A wonderful person who is tech-savvy sent an e-mail message yesterday explaining that she cannot trust her mom with a computer or phone anymore because scammers posing as Microsoft stole $2000 from her.

A friend contacted me a few days ago and said, “Every few weeks, I’ll go to a site, and it will say that this appears to be a new device? For example, I’ve looked at my Twitter account this morning, and it put up my username and asked me for my password again. Is this […]