There were geek news site articles, even a mainstream ABC7 news article, saying to apply the most recent iPhone OS update right away, due to zero-day vulnerabilities.

Have to enable wifi on the iPhone first, then can apply the update. For me, the update took about an hour.

Once the update was completed then turned off wifi on the iPhone, as I ( Read more... )

As is my own personal Security Policy, did my annual Changing Of The Passwords (changed all my passwords in my online accounts, and home WiFi (WPA2 PSK key)).

Tried to create and use strong passwords, unique to each online account. See tagged articles about WPA2 and/or haystack.

Switched internet providers from Earthlink/DSL to ATT/Uverse

I really really liked Earthlink/DSL. I didn't want to say good bye. They had provided my little family with our DSL for over 10yrs. Reliably. Afford-ably.

The trouble was, speedtest.net showed our DSL service was 1.3Mbit down/0.3Mbit up.

For 10yrs, when internet usage at my house ( Read more... )

TO ENCRYPT
gpg --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 example.txt

- or -

gpg --symmetric --cipher-algo TWOFISH example.txt

(gpg will then ask for a passphrase, make it long, as random as possible, upper and lower case, a punctuation, and a number)

TO DECRYPT
gpg example.txt.gpg

(gpg will then ask for the passphrase)

To encrypt, but have the ( Read more... )

Was about midnight, and I was surfing the web as I typically do.

Noticed the WiFi was showing a lot of activity (the antenna symbol LED very active), which seemed unusual. My PC is connected to the router via hardwire, so know it couldn't be me.

Did a walk around the house. Everyone was asleep, and I verified all the devices that could be ( Read more... )