Holiday shopping season is here! And that must mean that it's time again for my annual Best & Worst Gift Guide! But this time I've recruited some top minds from Consumer Reports to lend their expertise and enlighten us with their tech gift-giving strategi

Data brokers are amassing tons of our personal information, often from public sources. You can try to find all of these brokers and request your data be deleted, but it's a lot easier to deputize a tr

In the US alone, there are tens of thousands of small organizations that are responsible for critical infrastructure and vital community services. Most of them don't have an IT department let alone a

Today we'll wrap up my series of tips for enumerating all your old online accounts and deciding whether to delete them or just dumb down the personal data they have on you. There are several things to

AI chatbots like ChatGPT have made quiet a splash. Companies are tripping all over themselves in a rush to add "AI" to everything, heedless of the security risks. But perhaps more insidious are the pr

Now that we've tracked down all our old online accounts, it's time to make them more secure and review the data they contain. We should download a copy of that data for safe keeping before we ultimate

Our critical infrastructure is vulnerable and under attack by nation state actors, either for profit or perhaps even to establish a beachhead for future cyber conflict. During the pandemic, many of ou

There are literally billions of devices connected to the internet today - many of them cheap, insecure IoT devices... smart thermostats, doorbell cameras, webcams, cheap WiFi routers and other smart a

It's rare these days to find a well-designed and useful application that was made to be private from the get-go. Too many apps today view your personal data as a cash cow to be mercilessly milked, cla

In our quest to clean up and secure our data, today I will give you several clever and useful techniques for uncovering old, forgotten online accounts. We'll scrape the bottom of the barrel to complet