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The folks over at WordFence, a popular WordPress security plugin, have developed a great tool to see if your home router is currently vulnerable to the "misfortune cookie." Here's some of the details of the issue:  Half of the internet service providers we analyzed have routers with a very specific vulnerability. This vulnerability is known as the “misfortune cookie”. We will call it the MC...

You may have been reading a lot lately about Virtual Private Netowrks (VPNs) and how you may want one to help enhance your security. There are a lot of choices out there; some good, some not - some free, some not. Well here's a simple free one that I can easily receommend: the one built right into the Opera browser.  Free, unlimited, no subscription requiredEnhanced online privacy should be...

From the Pew Research Center: "Test your knowledge on cybersecurity topics and terms by taking our 10-question quiz. Then see how you did in comparison with a nationally representative group of 1,055 randomly selected adult internet users surveyed online between June 17 and June 27, 2016. The survey was conducted by the GfK Group using KnowledgePanel. "When you finish, you will be able to compare...

Open WiFi is nearly everywhere today, including here at Do Space. But you need to be aware that the "open" in Open WiFi means that's it's definitely not secure and not necessarily private either. The folks over at LifeHacker have a great list of ways to help you be more secure and private when using Open WiFi.  Practice Good Internet Hygiene Use the Right Networks (and Avoid the Bad Ones) Use...

I've authored a few books in my time and those Word documents get rather long. Currently I've got a manuscript that's almost 800 pages long and since there's very little narrative, it's not common that I stop working at the end of the document, ususally it's somewhere in the middle. So, when I save the file and reopen it later, I'm back at the beginning and I need to remember where I left off....

This is a bit more than a tip since it's a one-hour talk, but if you're intersted in the thought process behind 3D printers, it's worth the time. Diego Porqueras invented the Bukobot and Bukito 3D printers. Bukobot’s wildly popular Kickstarter campaign raised four times the requested funds, helping Diego open a Southern California hackerspace store, Deezmaker. But how do you design a 3D...

Have you hear about Tor networks or the Tor browser? Is it secure? Will it protect your privacy? Watch this two minute video and you'll have a much better understanding of this great...

Not everyone realizes that we have a great technical eBook collection for checkout via Overdrive. We're working on adding more titles monthly ranging from A+ Certification study guides to the highly popular Hidden Figures.  Here's a sample of one of my favorites What If? by XKCD creator Randal...

I've been using a Chromebook for almost two years now and that whole time I was completely unaware of thier built-in tools for those with visual imparments. The technology, known as ChromeVox has gone through a recent upgrade and and many new features. Worldwide, 285 million people are visually impaired; 39 million are blind and 246 million experience low vision. As two people with visual...

Not all of the links on our Resources page are going to teach you how to code or help you write that term paper you've been assigned. Some of them are just plain fun. And I, as someone who's first video game was Pong which was quickly replaced by the local video game arcade and my trusty Atari 2600 (yes, I still have it and it still works!) I find The Internet Arcade to be an amazing...