Supersize Your Passwords
A report by Anthony Mason on the CBS Evening News recently highlighted the latest consumer security concerns about hackers. A "white hat" expert from the security firm Trustwave managed to break Mason's 7-character password in just 37 seconds. And it wasn't an obvious...
Burn After Reading: Private Messages Made Simple
Email and texting are great modern conveniences, but they were never intended to be secret. Nowadays, with hackers dumping stolen messages on the Web and the government recording everything, these methods are decidedly risky for sending any information that must...
Stop Worrying About Your WordPress Site
Here at SWCP, we love WordPress, the planet's most popular and versatile open-source blogging and Content Management System. This very blog is a WordPress site, our Basic Web-Hosting package is tailored to support WordPress websites, and we even hold frequent...
Beware Pop-up Survey Scams
Pop-up ads are generally merely annoying, but some can actually pose a threat. Of course, it's the worst that try the hardest to make themselves look legitimate and helpful. You might find yourself faced with one that purports to be a survey of Internet services. And...
Tech Support Is Easier with a Copilot
Sooner or later, everyone needs help for their computer, or has been called upon by someone – parent, child, sibling, co-worker, or friend – to lend technical assistance for some problem too difficult for the other party to solve. Many times, advice must be given from...
Superfish Troubles Continue
The March 2015 Portal just came out. It's all about Superfish, adware preinstalled on certain Lenovo laptops, supposedly to enhance user choices and options while shopping. But the software breaks the basic protections embedded in TLS and the digital certificate...