15 Ways to Be a Safer Computer User
Sierra Ward // Editor’s note: Though infosec professionals may see this advice as basic to the point of being obvious, as we visit with people and interact with swaths of other […]
General InfoSec Tips & Tricks
5 Reasons for Mailvelope & Easy Instructions
Gail Menius // My husband set me up with GPG and Thunderbird and it was too hard. Ethan said it was cool. Lots of people gave it good reviews. It’s […]
Herding Those Pesky Passwords
Rick Wisser & Gail Menius // Frequently we get asked about where to store passwords. Should they be stored in a word/excel /txt file on your computer? Maybe, written down […]
Passphrases for Tiny People
Gail Menius // Once upon a time, in a land not too far away (about two miles from where I’m sitting now) I used to be an elementary school librarian. […]
Risky Business
Mike Perez // At BHIS, a few of our customers have come to us very recently with the “risk du jour”; no, not the Cash for Creds program Beau highlighted but […]
How to Secure Your Home Network
Katherine MacMillan // Something interesting happened last week. A programmer by the name of Matthew Garrett gained access to the lighting and window controls to nearly every room of a […]
Public Wi-Fi Insecurity – Part Deux, For Compliance Sakes
Jordan Drysdale // (See Jordan’s Part 1 of this post here.) PCI-DSS strolled into town with the latest compliance package of minutiae laden IT speak at the end of last year. […]
That One Time My Parents Were Hacked
Heather Doerges // My mom called the other day. It started out, “Honestly, your father.” Which, isn’t a strange way for her to start a conversation about my dad. “What […]
Beware Public Wi-Fi Insecurity – Part 1: Reviewing the Neighborhood
Jordan Drysdale // Our community’s downtown district is approximately a five block by four block area. There are art stores, toy shops, candy retailers, restaurants, bars and hotels. Significant investment […]