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Mobile Safety

June 3, 2020 by AGomez

Little neat fact. Did you know that smart phone in your pocket has more processing power than what NASA had to work with when we first sent a man to the moon? Its true! https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2019/07/02/your_mobile_phone_vs_apollo_11s_guidance_computer_111026.html We walk around with extremely powerful mini computers. In fact, chances are you use your home computer less and less …

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Block advertisements on your home network

February 28, 2020 by AGomez

Ads can be annoying and misleading a lot of times. I’m sure you’ve scrolled to a news site or even just performing an online search and lots of paid advertisements are acting like they are articles or relevant search results. Pop-up blockers only do so much, they can’t really block embedded ads. If only there …

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Using Passphrases

December 15, 2019 by AGomez

In my last post I talked about making a password system to create strong and unique passwords. Now I would like to talk about the new(ish) kid on the block, a passphrase. It’s kind of what it sounds like, which is a password with lots of words. Some people would consider using words in a …

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Make a better password

December 6, 2019 by AGomez

Ugh, passwords. Am I right? It’s about to be 2020. We all use passwords and if you don’t you are probably living off the grid which is impressive, kudos to you. However, again it is 2020 and chances are its been beaten into your head that your password choices suck. Don’t think they do? If …

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Policies are your friend

December 6, 2019 by AGomez

“Sorry, can’t do that. Company policy.” Is that the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word policy? For a lot of people policies are an inconvenience. For a cybersecurity guy like myself, they save everyone’s asses including the ones who don’t care for policy. Let’s look at that cliche policy line …

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RSS Threatpost

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