If you’ve forgotten your router’s password, acquired a used router, or are just helping out a friend with their setup, you can reset the router’s password to its factory default. Routers protect their web interfaces—where you can configure their networking, parental control, and port forwarding settings—with a default username and...
Get A Little Extra Security Shopping for the Holidays with Privacy.com
Hackers love the holiday shopping season as much as retailers do. In the first weekend of the 2017 holiday shopping season, malware infections rose 123%. Submitting personal financial information on websites is risky at best. The safest solution would be to have a different credit card for every site or...
Why Rebooting Your Router Fixes So Many Problems (and Why You Have to Wait 10 Seconds)
The internet is down, but you know what to do: unplug your router or modem, wait ten seconds, then plug it back in. It’s second nature at this point, but why does it actually work? And is there some magic to the ten second number? And the even bigger question:...
The Key to Better Cybersecurity: Keep Employee Rules Simple
It’s a common adage that employees are the weak link in corporate cybersecurity. But I believe they are also the best defense, if they are given policies that are easy to follow and not too numerous and complex. Employee security training and best practices need to be user friendly and...
8 Steps to Take Within 48 Hours of a Data Breach
A data breach itself is the second worst possible event which can occur in an organization; the mismanagement of the communication about the response is the worst." This observation comes from Exabeam chief security strategist Steve Moore, who has tracked criminal and nation-state adversaries and led the largest healthcare breach...