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Never Use the Same Password Again

score: 100 – April 2023 – Probably the worst security mistake beginners make is re-using their password. Databases are available online containing 22 billion usernames and passwords. Never use a password included in that database. Your username password combination are probably there more than once, so don't repeat them.

How to make a secure password

score: 100 – November 2016 – Sometimes you need to remember a password that is also secure. For example, the password to your password safe. Here is a method you can use.

Give someone your Master Password

score: 100 – March 2015 – Password safes are a must, but it is important that someone you trust has your master password to your password safe just in case you get hit by a bus or a toilet seat falls on your head, or something else untoward.

The Best Password Managers

score: 100 – April 2021 – What types of password managers are there and which are best?

Thunderbird, using a master password

score: 100 – January 2019 – Use a master password to encrypt and protect your email passwords. A how to guide for Thunderbird and Intellect.

KeePass: Entering your username and password

score: 100 – February 2018 – These tricks should make KeePass easier for you to use. Here are lots of ways to submit username and password.

Password protect your email program

score: 100 – August 2017 – Adding a simple pin or password to your Email app can provide another level of protection without very much inconvenience.

Password Cracking Improvements

score: 100 – October 2013 – Password cracking has been improving very fast requiring stronger and stronger passwords to be safe.

How to make a good master password

score: 100 – October 2011 – How to make a good master password.

Check your passwords

score: 91 – February 2023 – How to improve your password system, or create a new one. Basic rules for password and other vital information storage. Mistakes you should avoid.

Password Insights

score: 89 – September 2017 – What have we learned after examining millions of hacked passwords and what does it tell you about how to construct your own passwords?

Password Hacking Basics

score: 89 – March 2017 – How do hackers crack passwords and what do their basic techniques mean to you? How do you make passwords they cannot crack?

Understanding Password Storage

score: 89 – October 2012 – How are passwords stored? What are hash tables and salting? What are the clues that a website is using insecure methods?

Email -- Your Weak Link

score: 80 – October 2023 – Email is your weak link. If hackers crack your email password, they can wreak havoc with your life. Here's how to protect your email account with both desktop and mobile devices.

Funny wifi passwords

score: 80 – January 2019 – Some very funny Guest WiFi passwords. Imagine your friend telling you this and and you trying to type the password.

KeePass Quick Entry Plugin

score: 80 – August 2017 – This KeePass plugin lets you re-open your KeePass file with a short password if you can do it in one try.

Two Useful Keepass Improvements

score: 80 – July 2017 – Keepass's new Password Quality report is an excellent way to check the quality of your passwords and redo those that fall short.Another new feature is listing duplicate passwords.

Passwords on phones and tablets

score: 80 – June 2014 – Easy password entry using Keepass2Android on phones and tablets.

Safe Log ins

score: 80 – February 2013 – People log in to websites backwards. This causes them all sorts of problems. Email gets hacked. Passwords lost. Problems logging in. All this will end if you create your passwords and log in to important sites frontwards, instead of backwards. You begin with your password safe, then the website.

Introduction to KeePass

score: 80 – October 2011 – An introduction to Keepass password safe.

KeePass Quickstart

score: 80 – October 2011 – A Quickstart Guide to Keepass password safe.

Proper Password Encryption

score: 72 – October 2015 – A simple clear overview of the concepts for encrypting passwords and using the result to encrypt data. I use Keepass as an good example.

New Features of Windows 10 release 1803

score: 69 – July 2018 – Windows 10 version 1803 offers a few new features that are worthwhile.

Typable Random Passwords

score: 69 – May 2018 – Making passwords a little easier to type when that is necessary. Putting hyphens in passwords.

Don't save passwords in browsers

score: 69 – July 2017 – Letting your browser save passwords for you is a bad idea. It is either very inconvenient or it is insecure. This article shows how various browsers handle saving your passwords and why you shouldn't let them.

Faster and easier website login with KeePass

score: 69 – June 2017 – Keepass's Selected Autotype function explained and demonstrated. A better way to login.

Cloud storage considerations

score: 69 – June 2016 – Before you store your information or your clients', you should consider the security of the online storage service. Here are the principles you need to know.

Wonderful Keepass Plug-in

score: 69 – June 2015 – AutoTypeSearch, a Keepass plug-in, pulls up a search if the Auto-Login fails to find a match. This allows you to quickly find and login even when Auto-type fails.

Paypal Account Recovery

score: 69 – March 2015 – Paypal allows anyone who controls your email account to take control of you Paypal account. So you need good email passwords.

Phone Passwords

score: 69 – August 2014 – Phone lockscreen passwords are a hassle. One way to avoid them is to use an App locker instead.

Syncing Keepass with Mobile Devices

score: 69 – August 2013 – How to sync your Keepass safe between your phone, tablet and desktop computers

9 Rules for safe Computing

score: 69 – April 2013 – 9 simple rules for keeping your computer safe from viruses and malware.

Keepass Custom Fields

score: 69 – August 2012 – KeePass offers custom fields for each entry. These can be very useful for Security Questions and account numbers that may need to be filled in on a website. They allow you to select the field and copy it without having to scroll through the notes and hightlight and copy.

LinkedIn Breach

score: 69 – June 2012 – LinkedIn lost the hash of 6.5 million passwords, and this breach has some lessons for all of us. You need to make passwords that are unbreakable even if the hash is stolen.

21st Century Passwords

score: 69 – December 2011 – Making strong passwords for small form factor devices

How to switch to KeePass

score: 69 – October 2011 – Switching from OCS Passwords to KeePass.

HotKey Login with KeePass

score: 69 – October 2011 – How to setup Keepass to log you into websites with the press of a single hotkey.

Getting the most from KeePass

score: 69 – October 2011 – Important tools for making KeePass even more effective.

Gawker Security Breach

score: 69 – February 2011 – What we can learn from the Gawker Security Breach

Critical Paypal Fix

score: 69 – May 2009 – Paypal Security Flaw

KeePass Can Replace Authy Desktop

score: 63 – March 2024 – Twilio's authy desktop authentication app is being discontinued. Here are my recommendations to replace it. I've included a tutorial on using KeePass for your Time-based One Time Password authenticator.

For Fun

score: 63 – October 2023 – A Wifi Password and 50 years of going to Hooters after golf.

Passwords - The latest

score: 63 – June 2023 – Password cracking tools are getting better and better. They are progressing right along with other computer and Internet technology. Many passwords that were safe, are insecure now. Here's how they are cracking your passwords and what you need to do about it.

Two Factor Authentication

score: 63 – October 2019 – Though two factor authentication is all the rage, if you use a password manager and have good, unique, random passwords, then it might create more problems than it solves.

Keepass wins awards and recommendations

score: 63 – October 2019 – Keepass was given Editors choice awards or recommended by over 50 Windows magazines or websites. It has also been selected by some European governments as the password safe standard and is installed by default. Keepass also participates in software auditing projects.

Amazon Account Recovery

score: 63 – February 2015 – How Amazon quickly and easily allows you, or any hacker with access to your email, gain access to your Amazon account and reset your password and then your recovery email address.

Google Account Recovery

score: 63 – December 2014 – How does Google handle account recovery (when someone claims to have lost their password) and what you should do to check your settings.

A Better Way to Do One Time Passwords

score: 52 – May 2023 – This article recommended Twillio's Authy for the desktop, which was killed by Twillio. There is some general 2fa information that may be of interest, but not the recommendation of Authy.

NSA - How to secure your home network

score: 52 – May 2023 – The NSA has an excellent PDF pamphlet on how to secure a home or small business network. They give excellent advice.

Hacked Ring Cams

score: 52 – May 2023 – Two men were charged with hacking Ring home security cameras and swatting the owners. They posted the fiasco online using the ring camera video.

The anatomy of a computer hack

score: 52 – December 2022 – I take you step by step through how a client of mine gave up control of his computer and possibly his credit card to a con man through an email scam. Hopefully, this will help prevent this from happening to you.

Router safety

score: 52 – September 2022 – Routers stand between you and millions of nefarious characters who'd like to break into your computer. Here's the steps necessary to keep it secure.

Proton Me

score: 52 – July 2022 – If you ever need secure email, file storage, file sharing, calendar or VPN then Proton should be checked out. They have a range of account prices from free to enterprise level. The free account will work for many and the $50/yr. account will satisfy most of the rest of my clients.

7-zip Windows Archiver

score: 52 – May 2022 – 7-Zip is an essential tool for many Windows machines. It'll handle many archiving formats, as well as encrypting archives. Here is how and when to use it.

Tracking Important information

score: 52 – April 2022 – Here's how to track all your software licenses, Unique passwords and other critical information. All your passwords should be unique.

Sharing file securely

score: 52 – April 2022 – Often files should be securely shared with others. Even if the sharing doesn't need to be secure, sometimes the files are too big for email. Here are various methods for sharing properly and a few to avoid.

You need 2 ways to send email

score: 52 – March 2022 – Sometimes your mail gets blocked by the recipient. This can happen to anyone. So, it is necessary to have a backup way to send email. Here's how.

Best articles of 2021 Part 1

score: 52 – January 2022 – A short description of the best and most important articles from the first half of 2021.

Victim training

score: 52 – November 2021 – Your bank and other trusted sources are training you to be a victim of malicious hackers. Here's how to escape their training and 90% of the attacks we are facing.

FBI Monitors phones of 10,000 people without a warrant

score: 52 – August 2021 – The FBI and Australian Government sold an Anon privacy phone and VPN service to people on the dark web for a few years. It enabled many drug busts and arrests, but bypassed American civil liberties.

Critical Security considerations

score: 52 – June 2021 – What to consider and some tips to staying safe in our new cloud based world.

Secure email services

score: 52 – June 2021 – Two secure email services and a discussion of the issues with secure email. Followed by some tips for those who only infrequently need secure email message transmission.

Layered Security for 2021

score: 52 – January 2021 – Protecting yourself and your office or home from Internet miscreants, requires a multi-level approach. There is no simple silver bullet. There are layers of risk management that need to be addressed.

Scams to beware of

score: 52 – September 2020 – Miscreants are targeting older people posing as Amazon support and getting into their computers. Here's how to stop it.

Locking your computer

score: 52 – May 2020 – Here are 4 different quick and easy methods to lock your computer when you leave it.

QuickSearch Keepass plugin

score: 52 – July 2019 – The QuickSearch plugin adds customizable incremental search to Keepass. I've replaced Keepass's built-in search with it.

IoT attacks increase

score: 52 – June 2019 – Attacks against IoT (Internet of Things) devices accelerates. Avoid them if possible. If not, buy from a company that takes security seriously and updates their firmware.

Keepass Update

score: 52 – June 2019 – Some new Keepass features and a review of some old ones you might have missed.

Credential Stuffing

score: 52 – May 2019 – Credential stuffing is the large scale, automated attempt to match leaked usernames and passwords to hundreds of potential sites.

How I setup Keepass

score: 52 – May 2019 – I change many of the default Keepass settings to make it easier to use or and safer. I've found more of these "tricks" over time, so even if I set you up, there could be new stuff here.

Security Basics

score: 52 – November 2018 – What is the minimum that every user should absolutely do when engaged with the Internet? This article will explain the absolute minimum. Rather like a drivers test. If you don't do these things, you shouldn't be allowed on the Internet superhighway.

Our connected world

score: 52 – July 2018 – Along with the benefits of a connected world, comes many dangers. Every device we connect to the Internet needs to receive frequent security updates. Do yours?

Veracrypt: Securing files

score: 52 – April 2018 – VeraCrypt is a solid, safe, simple way to maintain strong security for some of your files. Their File Container option excellent if you need to keep some of your files private.

Who owns your stuff?

score: 52 – January 2018 – Who owns the books you buy from Amazon, Audible or Kobo? I chatted with their support. Here are the answers I got and suggestions for leaving your collections to your heirs.

Update Router Firmware

score: 52 – December 2017 – Updating online devices is important. One of the most important is to update your router. Useful information.

Everyone should place a Fraud Alert

score: 52 – October 2017 – Everyone should place a Fraud Alert on their credit reports. The process is simple and free. It requires lenders to verify your identity, usually by a phone call, if someone tries get credit in your name.

Doing a Credit or Security Freeze

score: 52 – October 2017 – I did a credit or security freeze to reduce the problem of identity theft. Here is all you need to know to determine if you should too.

Wireless printers and networking considerations

score: 52 – June 2017 – The differences between ad-hoc and infrastructure networks and the need to avoid printer makers quick and easy wifi installation processes.

Amazon Prime Cards

score: 52 – February 2017 – Amazon has two cards for Prime members that allow them to earn 5% credit on all Amazon purchases. One of these rewards cards is great while the other is terrible. Which is which?

Critical Chrome Problem

score: 52 – February 2017 – Chrome has a vulnerability where your vital address and credit card information can be stolen. Here is the fix.

Podesta's Mistakes - Let me count the ways

score: 52 – November 2016 – Podesta's DNC email hack was shocking because of the total lack of basic security understanding exposed. He violated so many simple rules. Here's what you can learn from his bad example.

VeraCrypt Audit

score: 52 – November 2016 – VeraCrypt, the best successor to TrueCrypt has been well audited. They found some issues most were fixed. VeraCrypt remains an excellent option, but be sure and upgrade to the latest version.

Yahoo Earns 5 Strikes

score: 52 – October 2016 – Yahoo has earned 5 strikes. It is time to consider perhaps they should be out. They have lost my trust.

Spideroak Simple File Share

score: 52 – September 2016 – SpideroakOne Backup makes it very quick and simple to share a single file that you have backed up.

Router Setup Instructions

score: 52 – July 2016 – These instructions show you how to fill in the Router setup form and describe what each item means and why it is important.

Will Congress Make Security Illegal?

score: 52 – April 2016 – The Draft Burr-Feinstein Bill essentially makes good security illegal. It cannot work, will not help, but will hurt our security. Legislating that pigs will fly, won't make them fly. Here's an explanation and links to action you can take.

Experts Versus Non-Experts

score: 52 – November 2015 – Google researchers compare regular users with security experts to reveal differences on security practices and beliefs. We can all learn from how we differ from the experts.

Window 10 Wifi Sense

score: 52 – August 2015 – Wifi sense makes no sense and should be stopped. This article explains the differences between the fantasy and the reality of this kind of childish nonsense.

Auto Login with Keepass

score: 52 – May 2015 – Keepass allows you to log into a website or program with the press of a hotkey (CTRL-Alt-A). This article shows you how to adjust it if the default conditions don't work.

How to Wipe your phone

score: 52 – August 2014 – Before you sell your phone, you need to get your stuff off it. Here's how to do it properly.

Heartbleed Vulnerability. What is it? What to do?

score: 52 – May 2014 – The heartbleed vulnerability is a major problem creating both panic sensationalism and real serious potential problems. We look at what it is, and what to do.

Has you account been compromised?

score: 52 – April 2014 – Troy Hunt's site lets you see if your account has been compromised. It checks 160 million accounts to see if you email address is listed.

Interesting News articles

score: 52 – December 2013 – A few interesting news articles about self-driving cars, modular phones and a comparison of Lastpass and Keepass.

Using Truecrypt

score: 52 – June 2013 – Truecrypt is excellent for encrypting your files, however, there are many different ways to use Truecrypt to work properly given specific objectives. This article explores a few of them.

My Favorite Android Tablet Apps

score: 52 – June 2013 – These are my current (May 29, 2013) favorite Android Apps for my tablet. Perhaps you'll find something new in here.

How Miscreants make money by hacking your PC

score: 52 – April 2013 – Miscreants can make money from attacking your computer even if you just use it for email. Sometimes people don't think they are a target because the information on their computers is not valuable. They are wrong. Here's why.

Interesting Outsourcing Event

score: 52 – February 2013 – American Infrastructure Employee secretly outsources his job to a Chinese contracting firm. This throws his company's security team into a panic as their secure VPN channel is being used by unknown Chinese, despite requiring two factor authentication.

Rules for Online Storage

score: 52 – October 2012 – 4 simple rules for safely using online storage.

More DropBox Security Issues

score: 52 – October 2012 – What the latest DropBox security breach tells us about the company. What did they do wrong?

Google Drive

score: 52 – June 2012 – Google drive offers a simple way to store a lot of files for very little money. This is not a real backup system, but it is online storage that can be very useful. It also provides a simple way to share files between devices.

Dropbox Issues

score: 52 – August 2011 –

DropBox Insecurity

score: 52 – June 2011 – Why Dropbox is insecure and more secure options.

An Insecure Router Could Send You to Jail

score: 52 – June 2011 – What you need to know to secure your router and what could happern if you don't.

Excluding Folders from Vipre's Active Protection

score: 52 – September 2010 –

PDF Encryption

score: 52 – July 2010 – PDF Encryption

Security Issue

score: 52 – November 2009 – Secure Login

Paypal Security

score: 52 – November 2009 – Paypal Security

Basic Rules for Browsing

score: 52 – July 2009 – Simple Rules for Browsing

Two New Security Threats

score: 52 – December 2008 – Two new security threats

Security News and Tips

score: 52 – October 2008 – Security News and Tips

Sending Encrypted Files

score: 52 – September 2008 – Use Axcrypt to send Encrypted Files

Testing Passwords

score: 52 – September 2008 – Testing passwords

Nod32 update

score: 52 – March 2008 – How to Upgrade Nod32 to Version 3

Safer USB Drives

score: 52 – January 2008 – Safer USB Drives

Creating Passwords with KeePass

score: 36 – October 2011 – How to create passwords with Keepass password safe.

For Fun

score: 28 – June 2023 – Alien mad that person used his name as a password!

Why switch to KeePass

score: 28 – October 2011 – Reasons to quit using OCS Passwords and move to Keepass password safe.

Great new KeePass2Android feature

score: 24 – January 2018 – Keepass2Android Share feature makes it even easier to access your passwords on your phone or tablet.

Review your passwords

score: 24 – October 2015 – Passwords tend to stick around for years, so it is necessary to review them and update them occasionally. You need to get rid of any that are too short or duplicated.

Have I been Hacked?

score: 24 – October 2014 – Two safe places to check and see whether your email address was compromised in any of a number of security breaches.

Finding stuff in Keepass

score: 18 – February 2021 – As important as saving your passwords and other information in a password safe, is being able to retrieve it. Here are three ways to make finding your keepass stuff easier.

Fun Videos

score: 18 – June 2013 – Ipencil and Ellen Degeneres' password protector videos. Also a wonderful Audi commercial, with New Spock versus Old Spock.

How Many Times Were You Pwned?

score: 17 – June 2023 – HaveIbeenpwned is a valuable Internet resource that maintains a database of companies that had account breaches. They have 674 breaches and over 12 billion breached accounts! Here's how to use the site to check your email address.

KeePass Portable

score: 17 – February 2014 – KeePass offers a good portable version and along with the Kingston traveler flash drive, you can alwas have your passwords with you.

Video Links to KeePass

score: 17 – October 2011 – Screencasts I've made to help with getting the most from KeePass.

Security Tip

score: 17 – July 2009 – Security Tip, Financial email address

Identity Theft Economics

score: 17 – May 2009 – Identity Theft Economics

Printing from Keepass

score: 11 – October 2013 – How to print from Keepass password safe. This article shows you how to print single entries, groups, or the entire database as well as to configure your output.

Gift Cards Scams

score: 7 – April 2024 – Gift card scams are a major source of fraud. Here's some examples of how they work, and also how you can protect yourself.

Libby

score: 7 – April 2024 – Libby is the App used by many county library systems to allow you to immediately check out E-books. Here's how to use it.

Windows Tip: Using Snap Layouts

score: 7 – May 2023 – How to use Windows Snap Layouts. These are actually useful in some cases. They've become part of my normal routine.

For Fun

score: 7 – April 2023 – A few short videos with birds, taking a woman's lunch, eating from a woman's hand, getting jealous and opening a package.

When Emails Fail to Send

score: 7 – March 2023 – Sometimes you send out emails, but they don't make it to their recipient. Here's what you need to do to get your emails sent, and also to fix the underlying problem.

Check Your Router

score: 7 – March 2023 – A reminder to check your router for firmware updates. This is almost as important as updating your operating system. While you're doing that, here are a few other options to lockdown your router.

For Fun

score: 7 – January 2023 – Two funny cartoons

Phishing as a service

score: 7 – November 2022 – The process of creating phishing attacks to steal your credentials was automated. This will increase the number of attacks. Expect more and better phishing attacks soon.

Working with PDF

score: 7 – January 2022 – Getting the most out of your PDFXchange software. I discuss the most important features of the free and paid versions and how to use them.

Three categories of encryption:

score: 7 – September 2021 – How to quickly judge the type of encryption you are promised by vendors. Understanding E2EE and when it is important.

Setting up Credit card processing

score: 7 – August 2021 – Setting up my account with Square to accept credit cards.

Excellent Fake Amazon Scam

score: 7 – August 2021 – An excellent example of a fake Amazon scam and how to spot one.

Email Options

score: 7 – May 2021 – A look at various email options and some recommendations for better services that respect your privacy.

Send files securely

score: 7 – February 2021 – Email is insecure, so sending private information via email is dangerous. Additionally, many email providers have maximum size limits for sending and receiving. Tresorit gives you a very easy way to encrypt the files on your computer. Send them encrypted, and then have the person who downloads them decrypt on their computer.

Preparing for a new computer

score: 7 – November 2020 – Create a spreadsheet for all your software to ease the transition to a new computer.

Recycling Computers

score: 7 – August 2020 – Before you recycle your computer, you should remove the private data from it. But how is this done? I cover both SSD and HDD drives and wiping it entirely, or just your data so it can be given to someone with the OS and some software intact.

Android Insecurity

score: 7 – May 2020 – Problems with Android security. Don't bank with them.

Check your backups

score: 7 – April 2020 – If you haven't checked your backup recently, assume it is not working! I review three kinds of backups and how to quickly and easily check whether each is working.

Germany chooses Firefox

score: 7 – December 2019 – The German Federal Office for Information Security tested 4 browsers, and endorsed Firefox for the best security for all German agencies.

More Facebook Villainy

score: 7 – June 2019 – Facebook might be the biggest threat yet to online security. Here's a rundown of their recent detestable acts.

New Windows 10 Danger

score: 7 – February 2019 – Microsoft has added a dangerous new feature to the latest Windows update. They now offer to save all your clipboard content forever in plain text. You can even store them on Microsoft's servers.

Monitor your email address for breaches

score: 7 – January 2019 – Mozilla.org has started a new service to allow you to monitor your email addresses to see if they were included in a breach. I suggest using it.

VPNFilter Botnet

score: 7 – July 2018 – The VPNFilter botnet is one of the biggest so far. It could be the most sophisticated. Here's how it works and what to do to protect yourself.

Work Remotely

score: 7 – May 2018 – A good, secure, inexpensive way to use your office computer from anywhere. Work from home or while traveling, safely and conveniently.

AceText

score: 7 – February 2018 – The Windows clipboard holds only one piece of text at a time. AceText from JustGreatSoftware holds as many as you want (a thousand by default) in the ClipHistory. Whenever you cut or copy text, AceText captures it into its clipboard history. AceText saves your clips even when you reboot your computer.

18 Security cameras insecure

score: 7 – July 2017 – Security flaws in OEM Security camera maker used by many different companies. They are not getting patched.

Cliqz Browser

score: 7 – March 2017 – Cliqz is a new safer, faster privacy protecting, ad-blocking browser based on the Mozilla Open Source project. It has received funding from Mozilla and is very fast and stable.

Windows Trick - Arrow Keys (and more)

score: 7 – October 2016 – Windows key plus arrow keys produce interesting results. An even better option is the Divvy program by Mizage software

To Suite or not to Suite?

score: 7 – May 2016 – With security, as with many things in life, simpler is better. When security companies try and do everything, usually, some of it is done poorly. You are better off getting specific programs to do specific things.

Setup a Guest network

score: 7 – March 2016 – Gain better security by setting up a guest network for your guests and Internet connected devices like Roku, Xbox or Nest.

ColorNote - Fabulous Android Note program

score: 7 – November 2015 – Colornote is an amazing note app for Android. It has over 1 million 5 star reviews on Google Play! I use it frequently on both my tablet and my phone. I use it for my shopping list, things I need to remember, and note taking.

Recommended Windows Programs

score: 7 – July 2015 – My recommended Programs for Windows with links to get them.

Setting up Share Rooms with Spideroak

score: 7 – March 2015 – Spideroak Backup makes it very easy to share even very large files securely and very easily. Here's how.

Using Google as a backup for sending E-Mail

score: 7 – December 2014 – How to setup Google as an alternative email sender, just in case of emergency. If your standard SMTP server goes down, you'll still be able to send email.

Patching your router

score: 7 – August 2014 – Recent research indicates that about 80% of the best selling routers have serious security flaws. Routers are rapidly adding many new features, but even more rapidly adding security flaws. Here is some help patching your router.

Government Security

score: 7 – February 2014 – Is Government security an oxymoron or simply a contradiction in terms? A partial list of government sites that have been hacked recently.

Testing Your Secure Connections

score: 7 – August 2013 – SSL Labs provides a tool to check your secure connections to the Internet. I show how to interpret the test and recommend using it on your banks, credit cards, medical centers, and anyone who holds your credit card information.