To anyone using the Internet at all over the last few months “Net Neutrality” likely sounds familiar. I know lots of people chalk that up to a “geek thing” and not something that they need to pay attention to. That couldn’t be further from the truth. The idea of Net Neutrality is to keep the…
Wow, the world is abuzz about ransomware infections…again! It seems like every day there is some new threat. In May, the world was taken by storm by a ransomware infection spreading through Europe. This infection was later dubbed WannaCry and was virulent enough to have ultimately affected more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries. Mere…
There’s been a lot of talk in the news lately about Internet privacy. Let’s see if we can make some sense of that. Most people know that if you clear your web browser’s history then no one can see what websites you’ve been too. While there is truth in that, this process only removes the…
There’s been a lot of talk about “The Internet of Things” or IoT devices lately. This might seem like another Internet buzzword but, as with most things, it pays to be informed. IoT devices are becoming more and more common and it’s possible to own them without fully grasping the truth about what they are….