• Was The FCC Website Actually Attacked – Or Is There a Cover Up?

    Was The FCC Website Actually Attacked – Or Is There a Cover Up?

    A recent report surfaced, which casts some doubt on the FCC’s explanation of why their website went down in 2017, during the public comment period for net neutrality protections.  If you remember all the way back to 2017, this particular outage was the reason that people weren’t able to provide comments on chairman Ajit Pai’s…

  • Worried About Your Privacy Online? Try Updating Your DNS Settings

    Worried About Your Privacy Online? Try Updating Your DNS Settings

    Have you heard of the company Cloudfare, and more specifically what they’re doing to make the internet better and safer for consumers?  In April, they launched a DNS service project, known as 1.1.1.­­1.  To take a step back, we should clarify what DNS actually is.  DNS stands for Domain Name System, and, Cloudfare describes it…

  • Another Day, Another Data Breach: Under Armour’s MyFitnessPal

    Another Day, Another Data Breach: Under Armour’s MyFitnessPal

    Under Armour just informed its users that data from approximately 150 million MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app accounts were compromised. In the email from Under Armour, it indicates that on March 25, 2018, they became aware that during February an unauthorized party acquired data associated with user accounts.  While the breach occurred in February, I am…