Category: Security
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Check if Your Password Has Been Compromised
It appears to me that data breaches are no longer an infrequent alarming event but rather, it has become a troubling trend in the digital world. If you are concerned about whether or not you password is strong enough or has appeared in a data breach here are some sources for you to check out…
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Ad-Blocking and Why You Should
You are being constantly tracked, surreptitiously, through the web. Various sites are tracking you with the intent of selling you products or selling your information. It’s one thing if a website inquires basic information when you are visiting, it is another thing when a website stalks you across the internet. I believe this to be,…
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Facebook Container Tab in Firefox
Guard Your Privacy Online An unfortunate reality to life online today is that some popular sites do not respect your privacy at all. The issue is not the data that you knowingly and freely give them. The issue is that they collect data on you without explicit consent. Oh, sure, you do agree to their…
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Windscribe VPN on openSUSE
With all the talk of VPN (Virtual Private Network) services to keep you safe and my general lack of interest in the subject, I was talking to Eric Adams, my co-host on the DLN Xtend podcast about the subject. He was telling me that he was hesitant to recommend any service so he gave me…
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CPU Security Mitigation on openSUSE | Tuning it for Your Case
This is a little outside of my normal blatherings format but after stumbling upon a video from Red Robbo’s YouTube channel. I wanted to investigate his claims that maybe, just maybe the security mitigations that I have chosen they are a bit excessive for my use case. Recently, openSUSE has added a feature to make…