Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

With the holiday season come holiday scams – and honestly, just more scammer activity across the board, in general. People are busy and buying lots of stuff, and it’s a time when we’re more vulnerable to schemes to take our money and infect our devices. Today we’ll talk about a few current scams going around and give s

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 strategies! Yael Grauer, Stacey Higginbotham and Jeff Landale join me for

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 trustworthy and affordable service to do all that work for you – and to do so on a regular basis. I’ll give you my easy bu

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 cyber security expert on staff. And yet these organizations are being attacked by cyber criminal gangs with ransomware 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 consider – we’ll go through them all! In other news: a study ranks the most private AI chatbots; LinkedIn is set to use

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 privacy risks. Most AI processing is done in the cloud, meaning that your queries and chats are subject to inspection, sha