ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley Recently, we were looking for something to solve a problem at the office.  Rather than spin my wheels looking for the best way to get software A (an Excel spreadsheet) to talk to software B (a line-of-business app that has a SQL backend), I reached out to someone on the […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley Providers are pushing us to two-factor authentication (2FA). Every day, I get a prompt to enroll in two-factor, use two-factor instead of a password, or even upgrade to a passkey. Just the other day, I saw that Facebook is mandating passkeys for me. Don’t panic. It doesn’t appear that this […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley It’s that time of the year again. No, not pumpkin spice — I’m talking about Cybersecurity Awareness Month. AI provided this definition: “October is recognized as Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the United States, led annually by CISA and the National Cybersecurity Alliance, with themes such as ‘Securing the Next 250’ […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley Years ago, my first iPhone-to-iPhone migration was flawless. I did a full encrypted backup to a hard drive on my personal computer, tethered the new phone to the computer, and performed a restore to the new phone. All applications came across, along with all the saved passwords. All settings and […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley Not a day goes by without a prompt to set up a passkey. As with everything in security, there are trade-offs. These mostly have to do with balancing security and convenience. This will manifest itself in the decisions you must make when setting up passkeys. Some decisions are made for […]

ISSUE 23.34 • 2026-08-24 ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley It all started when I was assisting someone who was trying to determine whether their Wi-Fi mesh routers were operating at the best possible speed. I tried to log in to the Web-based interface to the mesh system, which indicated that browser access was disabled. Uh-oh. […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley OpenAI’s recent attack on another company’s cloud instances reminds me that sometimes we forget the basics. As we understand the situation at the moment, OpenAI’s test platform was meant to be isolated and not connected to the Internet. But because it needed to download certain items, it was given read-only […]

ON SECURITY Tracking the attacker By Susan Bradley Recently, Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, and others released updates illustrating how much we are being impacted by AI. The three major vendors either sped up releases or released updates with a massive number of vulnerabilities. But does that make us more unsecure? Before I discuss some side effects […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley If you are a Windows 11 owner, it’s wise to review your security practices on a regular basis. Recently, I’ve come across a new tool that you may want to check out. The advantage? It uses only official Microsoft built-in techniques that are documented and approved. In addition, it comes […]

You probably saw in the news the story about the young man brought up on charges. I’ve seen more than a few folks on social media concerned about the privacy implications of a GDID. (More about that identifier here). I personally have a hard time putting up my gee whiz privacy outrage for a guy […]