On Boxing Day here in the UK (26th December for anyone who doesn’t celebrate it) the NCSC (that’s the National Cyber Security Centre) blogged about staying smart with your Christmas gadgets. This included 5 tips which are always true for gadgets and our tech-filled lives, so I thought I’d go through them. Always accept automatic updates Or…
Tip 2: Turn on two-factor authentication (2FA)
On Boxing Day here in the UK (26th December for anyone who doesn’t celebrate it) the NCSC (that’s the National Cyber Security Centre) blogged about staying smart with your Christmas gadgets. This included 5 tips which are always true for gadgets and our tech-filled lives, so I thought I’d go through them. Turn on two-factor authentication (2FA)…
Tip 1: Protect it with a strong password
On Boxing Day here in the UK (26th December for anyone who doesn’t celebrate it) the NCSC (that’s the National Cyber Security Centre) blogged about staying smart with your Christmas gadgets. This included 5 tips which are always true for gadgets and our tech-filled lives, so I thought I’d go through them. Protect it with a strong…
Printing the screen in Chrome
I was trying to create a PDF file from a website that I was viewing today and it wasn’t displaying “correctly”. Of course, this wasn’t a Chrome bug or anything, the website just had a rather fun “print” stylesheet that was changing the way everything looked, which isn’t what I wanted in my PDF file,…
Cloudflare CSAM Scanning Tool
A couple of weeks ago, Cloudflare announced their new CSAM scanning tool, and the fact that there were making it available to all customers, even those on the Free tier. For those who the acronym is not familiar to, it’s Child Sexual Assault Material. If you host a site that allows users to upload images (such…
Updated Now page
This time of year I see a lot of “year in review” posts, where people reflect on 2019, and their goals for 2020. This is not going to be one of those posts. However, I thought this was a good time to make sure that my Now page is up to date with the latest things…