What to do about the Equifax Breach and Potential Identity Theft As you’ve probably heard, this week Equifax Inc. (one of the “big-three” credit bureaus) announced a cybersecurity incident that involved a data breach of 143 million U.S. consumer records. The information that was exposed includes: names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver’s license numbers, amongst other things. Some credit card…
General Use OpenDNS for Free to Increase Network Security and Block Adult Content On Your Home Network Are you looking for a free and effective way to improve the security of your home network? How about protecting your family from adult content such as pornography, and mature themed websites such as gambling and alcohol? OpenDNS, and other Domain Name System (DNS) services like it, can…
General Using HTTPS Everywhere I recommend all websites use https. That includes your personal blog, small company marketing sites, as well as web applications and e-commerce websites. What is HTTPS? As I explained in my article for small business: “It is HTTP delivered through a secure, encrypted connection. When you visit a website protected by HTTPS, the first step is your web browser and the…
Windows 10 Can’t connect to this network – on Windows 10? Use this troubleshooting cheat sheet Here’s a common problem – the dreaded Can’t connect to this network message. This article is meant to be a quick and dirty cheat sheet. As such, there’s not a lot of explanatory text. Troubleshooting steps – eliminate ISP as source of issue How many devices are experiencing issues? If…
Enterprise IT Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) – Notes and Resources This blog article will serve as a running notebook for information and findings related to Power BI Report Server, also known as PBIRS What is Power BI Report Server (PBIRS)? PBIRS is a recently released Microsoft server product that allows a company to host on-premises Power BI dashboards (as well as traditional SSRS reports). It’s…
macOS There’s an easy way to rename multiple files using finder in macOS Since the Yosemite release of Mac OS X (now called macOS) the Finder application (Mac’s equivalent of Windows File Explorer) has a powerful feature that lets you easily rename multiple files. Historically, renaming more than one file at a time required a custom script or a 3rd party add-on program. This new…