Mike Foster’s IT Security & Best Practices Blog

People sometimes lose or misplace USB memory sticks, SD Cards, External USB hard drives, and other external storage media. Help protect your data from prying eyes and cyber thieves by encrypting the drive. On Macs and Windows, encrypting an external drive can be as simple as right-clicking on the external drive’s icon and selecting the […]

It happens too often: An employer terminates an employee, and then the employee comes back to shoot their supervisors. There is a simple way to reduce the likelihood…

You probably heard that a group of hackers has collected more than a billion passwords – so far. The best password strategies:

Please forward this to your IT Techs immediately. As with Heartbleed, this is a vulnerability that attackers are already using against you and nobody knew until right now. These are called “zero-day attacks.”