Should You Update to Windows 10?
If you're a typical Windows user, by now you've likely found a pop-up window from Microsoft on your desktop at least once inviting you to "reserve" your free copy of Windows 10 – even if your current system is pirated. It's an unprecedented annoyance step for the...
Promote Your Site at SWCP
Southwest Cyberport is proud of our customers. After all, they're smart enough to use a friendly, local ISP with cutting-edge technology and good tech support, so they must know something. 😉 One of the ways we show it is by offering website owners and other...
Don’t Panic: How Anxiety Aids the Bad Guys
Fear and anxiety are the biggest allies spammers have. Every month, for instance, that more of our customers than usual have problems with their bill, there's also a corresponding uptick in the number of them that fall for phishing attacks. The reason why seems clear:...
Private Email – Part 2
In our last post we showed you how to install the Mailvelope browser extension and generate PGP public and private keys, and how to import someone's public key. Now we'd like to actually use this structure to send encrypted email. At this point if you use Gmail or...
Private Email – Part 1
In that last few years we've come to see more and more that things we thought were private, simply aren't. Whether it is companies that want to sell you things, the government wanting to find terrorist plots, or thieves looking for personal data to aid with identity...
Critical New Microsoft Security Flaws Revealed
There's a certain rich irony in the recent hack of the notorious Hacking Team. Though they self-righteously claim to be selling solutions to law enforcement, Hacking Team is an evil group of professional hackers and malware vendors. They got pwned themselves recently,...