Podcast Ep. 05 – Domain Name Scam and how to avoid it.
Welcome to The SClark Consulting Show This is the podcast to help you achieve more productivity for your personal and professional life through technology and a little bit of common sense. Today on Episode 5 of the podcast I am going to talk about a common domain name scam and how you can avoid it. I wrote about this several years ago but the scam is still making the rounds. I received a letter in…
Don’t fill out Facebook quizzes
Krebs on security has a great blog post that reminds us not to fill out those Facebook quizzes that seen to pop up in the feed all the time. Social media sites are littered with seemingly innocuous little quizzes, games and surveys urging people to reminisce about specific topics, such as “What was your first job,” or “What was your first car?” The problem with participating in these informal surveys is that in doing so…
Password advice for 2017
I’ve written several posts over the past few years on passwords. In particularly my post on password strategy remains just as relevant now as when I wrote it several years ago. the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently updated its guidelines on creating secure passwords and it made some fairly significant changes. The main change was to remind user on the importance of password length and less on included special characters etc. From an…