How brute-force attacks reveal your passwords
A brute-force attack is an attempt to discover—or “crack”—your password through repeated guessing. On public-facing login screens, most web services limit the number of times...
The secret codes that nobody can crack
Remember back in school, when you and your best friend would exchange secret notes across the classroom in code? The two of you muffling...
4 ways to back up your data securely
Photos, documents, saved video games, and old emails: We accumulate a lot of data throughout our lives. And just like our parents’ attic, our...
How to make a small server for your home
A guide to installing a small server in your own home, and cool things to do with it. Lexie shows us how with Linux (Ubuntu).
Girl Scouts are our next wave of cybersecurity experts
Do you know what badges Girl Scouts are collecting these days? It’s not just Hiker, Making Friends, and Cookie CEO anymore. With a strong...
PGP is still pretty good for privacy
Many privacy advocates use PGP (GNU Privacy Guard/GPG in its open source form) to encrypt, sign, and verify data and text of all sorts. PGP...
Why you should use a unique password for every online account
So, you’re signing up for yet another online service. It’ll probably ask you to choose password with rules like: Must have at least eight...
Upset about Facebook? You should be more worried about your ISP
Sure, Facebook’s data policies are bad, but they pale in comparison to your ISP’s (internet service provider). With Congress recently passing legislation that allows...
Here’s why your printer is a tattletale
When you print, scan, or copy a document at home or in the office, it might look like any other document to your eyes....
What are DNS leaks and how to prevent them
A DNS leak is when your VPN connection reveals information about your DNS requests to a third party. Here's how ExpressVPN stops DNS leaks.
