by jnelson | May 25, 2017 | News, Our Blog
The news about online security seems universally bad these days. New scary threats, like the WannaCry ransomware attacks, are larger and more vicious than ever, hitting targets around the world for payoffs in Bitcoin. There may be much more such attacks on the...
by jnelson | Feb 4, 2017 | News, Our Blog, Security, Warnings
Like an early sign of spring, the tax scammers and would-be defrauders are already spreading their evil lies all across the land. And this year, they’ve gotten an early start and seem worse than ever. The IRS says that phishing scams – using email supposedly...
by jnelson | Feb 6, 2016 | News, Security, Warnings
At SWCP, we love our WordPress. This site is run on WordPress, we support the platform and strive to make it as easy and safe to use as possible, and we even host meetings at Ideas and Coffee to discuss how to use it most effectively. After all, WordPress is now used...
by jnelson | Aug 19, 2015 | News, Security, Warnings
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...
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...
