Dropbox has started limiting connected devices to 3 on their free accounts. Dropbox has had a few security problems in recent memory. These items have recently overcome Dropbox pros which include: peer to peer syncing, efficient block level syncing. Read a few articles the best of which is https://startupstash.com/dropbox-alternatives/ Summary: Sync.com if you want to …
The Raspberry Pi 4 was released June 24, the latest in a series of affordable ($35us), single board computers designed to educate children on programming and robotics. Why do we care? Aren’t there a hundred “Pi Killer” boards released with the same specs? First lets look at the hardware. The CPU is 20% faster than …
We all hate Email Spam which the listed technologies help with but they also prevent something much worse. Imagine you get an email from your boss telling you to transfer money or send him a password. Now what if that wasn’t really your boss? What if anyone could send email that was indistinguishable from your …
As Ransomware become more prevalent, Insurance companies will add more requirements and stipulations for payout. If your company didn’t have the mitigations in place that they promised, there will be NO payout. This is typical Catch22; if you have the mitigations in place, you don’t need Ransomware insurance. Ransomware Baddies may not have the key …
Here I explore some alternatives to Insecure social media. Social media makes their money from selling your browsing history and brand preferences. Some counties have restrictions that personal data needs to stay in the country. Friendica distributed, federated social ActivityPub,Disporia,OStatus compatible Social and Microblogging Mastadon.social distributed, federated social ActivityPub,OStatus compatible Microblogging focus RocketChat like Slack …
I am not paid by any of these manufacturers. Firewall; Paid: Fortinet; industry leader. uses ASICs to offload tasks while still being energy efficient and inexpensive. Free: PfSense/OpnSense; based on BSD. Free failover / backup firewall. Installs on Intel based hardware so re-use and old desktop or buy a NetGate appliance. Switching; Use managed switches …
Some Simple Security Tests to get Small Businesses started Thycotic Weak Password finder; tests for LanMan, Weak hashes etc. and shows which of those accounts have Administrator privilege. https://thycotic.com/solutions/free-it-tools/weak-password-finder/ Wireshark LLMNR udp.port == 5355 (display filter) udp port 5355 (capture filter) Leave running for 1 hour + clients that send requests have “Netbios over TCP” …
It’s Tricky Tricking people is much easier than actual hacking, security professionals like to call this Social Engineering. Their best trick is to convince websites or companies to reset your password. Everyone forgets their password. We’ll cover safe places to write them later. To reset your password, websites collect some personal information that only you …
Why is my Wifi so slow?? If you have teenagers this is a recurring song. Today we look at easy ways to combat interference and speed up wireless. Foundational Knowledge (skip this if you don’t care why) Unlicenced Wireless is limited by law to 2 watts of power and a few hundred Megahertz of frequency …
Article DNS security filtering Quad9 is a free offering from an IBM led group of security organizations. OpenDNS made this type of service popular and Quad9 builds on that by making the service faster using AnyCast and a fleet of world-wide distributed DNS servers. This method makes it easy to protect your entire Home/Enterprise from …