For those of us watching the pre-recorded opening ceremony, the Olympics drones moving through the skies were magical. And as it turns out, it really was magic – studio magic that is. They Never Even Took Off The planned drone launch by Intel never even happened. As it turns out, Read more…
I’ve never used a ride sharing service such as Lyft, but my wife has used Uber a few times. Never again. Lyft is looking into allegations that employees used passenger data to stalk people & find the phone numbers of celebrities. It’s a perfect example of what happens when policies Read more…
For 3 years James Veitch has been responding to scam emails. Why? He’s certainly not gullible enough to be tricked into sending money to a scammer. In his own words: Any time they’re spending with me is time they’re not spending scamming vulnerable adults out of their savings. It’s quite Read more…
Connecting to Dropbox over FTP or FTPS isn’t supported natively. This post will give you a reasonable workaround option. Dropbox is a great way to store your files in the cloud and easily share them between multiple devices. It’s no secret I’m a fan of using it for our website Read more…
In my most recent post, I talked about one of the most underrated plugins for WordPress backups. If you didn’t read it yet, read it now and then come back to this one. UpdraftPlus Backups for Multiple Sites So if you’re reading this post, it’s safe to assume you’re not Read more…
I recently began looking for a good backup option for my WordPress sites. In the past, I’ve always performed WordPress backups manually. But times change. I’ve managed to get more website clients over the past year. And while it’s no big deal to manually backup a few sites every week, that Read more…
For the non-technical website owner, switching your site from http to https may seem like a daunting task. And to be fair, depending on your situation, it might not be a piece of cake. As the Internet moves towards tighter security however, the work will prove to be well worth Read more…
By sheer definition, privilege creep is the gradual accumulation of access rights beyond what an individual needs to do their job[1]. When someone needs rights to a specific resource, and that need is justified, the rights are (and should be) granted. However when that same person no longer requires those Read more…
By now everyone has heard about the massive Equifax data breach. Not only were 143 million people (half the US adult population) affected, but the credit giant knew about the breach for over 40 days before disclosing it. Although not as big as the Yahoo breach, it’s the largest breach Read more…
Americans in the land’s highest office apparently have the tech skills of our grandparents. When White House staffers received emails from coworkers that came from mail.com and outlook.com domain addresses, they assumed they were real. The staffers even turned around and provided their personal email addresses to the prankster. Not Read more…