ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley Normally, I like to give actionable information. This article won’t do that. Sure, I’ll give you a few tips here and there, but for the vast majority of this week’s column, I’ll be pointing out instances of vendor arrogance. I’m going to begin with Microsoft (of course, and deservedly so), […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley The “edge,” by which I mean the network hardware standing between the Internet and the PCs and devices on your network, is a first line of defense against attackers. What’s on your edge? At any point during the day, attackers are out to get someone. You may not be the […]

TAME YOUR TECH By Susan Bradley Are you still using your original email address and account from your Internet service provider? Is that ISP notifying you that it wants to get out of the email business?  In years past, you signed with an Internet provider. and as part of that service. they handed you an […]

On several nights for the last few weeks my Internet dropped out. Early on, it was just enough to make the remote connection to the office momentarily freeze. Now the freezes are enough to disrupt me from working at home. I called Xfinity; the line and modem were replaced but the service still drops. There […]