I had been studying up on blockchains when I started thinking about time locks on bank vaults and safes. I thought to myself how could one make a digital time lock that could not be hacked just by changing the time? Then over the next few hours I came up with what I think is Continue Reading »
Data breaches seem like they are in the news weekly nowadays. It happens so much it is easy to overlook or miss a data breach that may involve you. But Mozilla has come out with a new tool called Firefox Monitor that may help with that. Has your account info been stolen? Firefox monitor partnered Continue Reading »
Privacy on the internet is a hot topic nowadays and rightly so. The more connected our lives have become to the internet the more privacy we have given up. In fact, I think the term internet privacy is kind of an oxymoron. Anything you do or put on the web can go public forever. But Continue Reading »
The last numbers I saw showed that around 20 percent of phishing e-mails and sites fooled their victim into giving up info. That is a big number and that could explain why phishing attacks have only skyrocketed in the last year. So if you manage to discover a phishing website or malware please take the Continue Reading »
Cloudflare has launched a DNS server on April 1st, 2018. They promise their DNS will speed up your internet. The Cloudflare DNS service also promises to wipe all DNS queries logs within 24 hours of being created. The 2 top DNS services today are Google and OpenDNS but this promise of speed and privacy just Continue Reading »
