If you've listened to even a handful of my shows, you are well aware that you're being tracked around the web. But even I was surprised by some of the things I learned in the recent white paper from the Electronic Frontier Foundation entitled "Behind t...

We don't often think about the security and privacy of our regular old "snail mail", but we need to. According to recent activity observed by researchers of the dark web, the bad guys have been regaining interest in identity theft schemes involving phy...

It's that time of year again - time to see which popular gifts make my privacy/security Naughty and Nice lists! You want to make sure that when you're giving gifts to your loved ones that you're not also giving gifts to hackers and data miners!

Today in part 2 of my deeply insightful interview with author Kris Shaffer, we discuss how marketers and foreign powers have been capturing our attention and even manipulating our responses. We'll discuss how these techniques were used in the 2016 US p...

They say we are in the Information Age and that data is the new oil. But many (including my guest, Kris Shaffer) are saying that was is truly valuable today is attention, not information. Information is so plentiful now that it almost has no value.

Marketing companies have come up with may clever ways to track our travels around the web, hoping to garner as much information about us as they can. At the same time, privacy-conscious organizations have given us tools to maintain our anonymity by co...

How are our identities stolen? What happens to our identity information after its been stolen? Once we realize we've been hacked, what can we do to mitigate the damage and recover from the consequences? I'll discuss this and much more with Amyn Gilani ...

I've been a Dropbox user for many, many years. But recently, they've gotten really pushy - trying to get me to save all my photos and docs there, integrating with MS Office when I didn't ask it to, and pushing me to upgrade.

You've got ransomware! Now what? If you had the foresight to create safe backups, you can restore your data and move on. Sometimes the hackers screw up and you can actually recover your files directly without paying for the key. But in many cases,

As our world becomes increasingly technical and interconnected, we become more susceptible to technical misfortunes and feel more impact when they inevitably occur. In the first half of my interview with Joshua Motta,