A hard learned lesson in VPNs and secure websites

Being a Defensive Computing kind of guy, I am a frequent flyer when it comes to…

Defensive Computing and the Academy Awards

Sunday nights screw-up naming the Best Picture at the Oscars offers a lesson in defensive thinking,…

How to immediately update Flash in Chrome

For years now, the Chrome browser has reported that it was up to date, even when…

President Bannon Chrome Extension is a security problem, not a joke

Pretending that Steve Bannon is really the President was funny when Saturday Night Live did it…

Spyware on a Chromebook

I think Chromebooks are great. They are cheap, fast laptops that can satisfy the computing needs…

The Netgear router flaw post mortem — plenty of blame to go around

In the recent Netgear router flaw, it's easy to blame Netgear for ignoring the initial report…

Updates and more on the Netgear router vulnerability

On December 9, 2016 we first learned of a command injection vulnerability in some Netgear routers.…

Easily exploited Netgear router flaw discovered

At least two Netgear routers, the R6400 and R7000 are vulnerable to a command injection flaw…