One Thing To Do Today: Turn off image loading for email
Let’s do something super simple today. Turn off default image loading in your email client or settings. HTML emails can
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One Thing To Do Today: Insist on HTTPs
TL; DR Install the EFF sponsored chrome extension HTTPs Everywhere or look into a browser like Brave. The letters HTTP stand for
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One Thing To Do Today: Tuesday Sweep, where are your backups?
TL:DR Sign up for Crashplan with the option of managing your own keys. The SFMUNI was able to tell the
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One Thing To Do Today: Choose Open Source ( #opencybermonday )
In honor of #opencybermonday, it seems to be a good moment to point out that security minded folks tend to also
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One Thing To Do Today: Know where you’re going when you click.
The text of a link is not always honest about it’s destination. On websites and when using a browser to
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One Thing to Do Today: Single-Factor Biometrics are the WORST. [Supergirl Spoilers]
So thanks to Supergirl Season 2 Episode 7 we’ve got a giant teachable moment on the security horror show of single
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One Thing To Do Today: That IoT device on sale for Black Friday? Hold off.
There is a joke gaining popularity on the internet. “The S in IoT stands for security.” The very first twitter
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One Thing To Do Today: Give Thanks
I’d like to say thank you to the many teachers I’ve had in my life. You’ve made me who I
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One Thing To Do Today: Enable Two Factor Authentication
TL;DR Yes, go enable two factor authentication, but it’s probably really fancy multistep verification. And email, still not encrypted. I’m very glad to
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One Thing To Do Today: Add Self Review to Tuesday Checklist
It’s Tuesday Sweep Time on my calendar. I’m trying to create a github-pages site that will be a nice little
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One Thing To Do Today: Research Social-Engineering
TL;DR: Read the entire SmartFile article on 23 Social Engineering Attacks, or at the very least scroll to the end for their summary
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One Thing To Do Today: The robots are listening and they understand what they hear.
TL;DR: Don’t invite AI enabled cloud listening devices or apps into your home. Spoken natural language processing still takes a
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