Fireproof Boxes — An Often Overlooked Detail

September 8, 2008

A fireproof box can be a great place to store a small quantity of important papers. Anything put in this box has a better chance of surviving a fire. I like to keep my passports, birth certificates, wills, and social security cards in there, among other things. They are the things you don’t need all [...]

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A Hurricane Season Charity Note

September 2, 2008

The first message just popped into my Inbox: “Hurricane Relief”.
Here we go again.
If you want to contribute to hurricane relief, please do so via some established charity that you KNOW, with 100% certainty, will use your donation for its intended purpose. I’m not going to list any here, nor will I recommend any.
Why? Because even [...]

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Passing Passwords In The Clear

August 31, 2008

Do you realize that whenever you log in to your web server using FTP or telnet — or log in to a site via regular HTTP (as compared to HTTPS) — you are passing your password in the clear, where it is subject to being intercepted?
This is just one way that your password can be [...]

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Where Do You Go When You Surf The Internet?

August 27, 2008

There are a lot of dangerous places on the Internet. You know — sites you wouldn’t want your children to see, sites that download malware on to your computer, sites that can take over your computer without your knowledge, etc.
Here’s a simple trick to help prevent your computer from becoming infected and to better protect [...]

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How Simple Will Simple Be?

March 7, 2008

So far, not much has been put up here. To be honest, it’s because I’ve been debating which way I want to take this site.
And I’ve almost decided!
I want this site to be exactly as the name implies:
Simple. I want the information you receive here to be easy to implement.
Security. I want you to be [...]

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Simple Security Tips

March 13, 2007

Welcome to Simple Security Tips. You’ll get a very short — and very helpful — security tip every time I make a post.
And who am “I”? I’m Tom Brownsword, a certified computer security professional (CompTIA Security+ and CISSP) with an extensive background in security. Beyond the “computer security” aspect, I also have extensive experience in [...]

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