Happy Data Privacy Day! My guest today is none other than Bruce Schneier: world renowned security guru and author of several great books, including the Data and Goliath and Click Here to Kill Everybody! Bruce and I discuss the current state of data pri...

A small company has amassed over 3 billion online photos from social media and other public sources, creating perhaps the largest facial database in existence - far larger than even the FBI's database. The images are often connected to a person's full ...

The IRS already knows what I made, what taxes I've paid, and even what my mortgage interest was last year. Why do I have to fill out tax forms? Turns out there's a very specific reason, and you're not going to like it. At the turn of the century,

It's not too late! You can still snag a free upgrade to Windows 10 from Microsoft. If you're still running Windows 7, it's time to avail yourself of this offer. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 7 on January 24, 2020.

2019 has come and gone, and 2020 is upon us! You know what that means: New Years Resolutions! I've put together a Top Ten list of suggestions that will significantly improve your computer security and online privacy!

We know that we're tracked, but what remains largely invisible is the massive economy working behind the scenes (or "mirror") to buy, sell, trade and bid on you and your data. I've seen estimates that claim there are up to 4000 data brokers in the US a...

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...