by Jamii Corley | Jul 31, 2015 | Encryption, How the Net Works, Interesting Items, Resources, Security, Tips and Tricks
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...
by Jamii Corley | Jul 31, 2015 | Encryption, How the Net Works, Interesting Items, Resources, Security, Tips and Tricks
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...
by jnelson | Feb 7, 2015 | News, Warnings
UPDATE: As of Friday the thirteenth, there have been few new developments save for much sound and fury. Anthem has announced that members and former members data going back 11 years to 2004 is at risk. And they are offering free credit monitoring and identity theft...
by jnelson | Oct 11, 2014 | Security, Warnings
Among the many kinds of wicked online traps that users must beware, one of the most vicious kinds is called “ransomware”. This is a generic term for a type of malicious software that encrypts all or the most useful of the victim’s files, making it...
by jnelson | Dec 17, 2011 | News, Resources, Security
The end of the year provides an excellent occasion to review your backup strategy. Consider how your life would be affected next year if all the files you worked on this past year suddenly vanished. As anyone who has suffered such an event knows, a dead hard drive,...
