World Password Day 2022 World Password Day is on May 5th this year and is observed by updating your passwords and verifying your security...

Tech Sense Q&A Every now and then I get questions that I put aside and answer when I have room left in my column. I have accumulated a...

Pi Day - March 14th Monday, March 14th is also known as Pi Day. Pi is of course the number that represents the ratio of a circle’s...

A Safer New Year I believe that the New Year is a great time to improve your security posture, so with that in mind I have a few...

Another Holiday season and we are feeling the economic impacts of nearly two years of COVID. There are shortages of many popular...

Potpourri 2021 This month I thought I might touch on several short topics before we go into the holiday season. Windows 11 Windows 11 was...

Wireless This month our topic is wireless technologies. We will try to briefly cover three wireless technologies that we find in our...

Back to School 2021 School starts again shortly, are you ready for the new reality? We are not certain where our students are going to...

Space 2021 A number of significant achievements have occurred in space technologies in the past couple of months and I thought I would...

Chip Shortages I thought for this month’s column it might be interesting to explore the chip shortage which is having an impact on...

Ransomware I am writing this in May of 2021. As I drive down US 1 here in Beltsville the gasoline prices have all jumped from about $2.40...

Another World Password Day I have been writing this column for just over five years now and I have written five columns (one was in two...

The USB Port As I see it part of the purpose of this column is to give the readers insight into technology. This month I thought I would...

Pi Day - March 14th March 14th is Pi Day. Pi is the number that represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. In...

How Search Engines Work Happy New Year! Welcome to 2021, hopefully a better year. Last week I was asked how search engines like Google or...

Free Gifts for the Privacy Minded The holiday season is upon us as we work, play, shop, and go to school online. For many of us hours and...

Holiday Shopping Ideas 2020 It's November again and time to prepare for holiday shopping. It seems that many companies are running “Black...

Phone Phishing From last month, phishing is a means to try and fraudulently collect money or valuable information from a person using...

Phishing Attacks Continuing our series on security and privacy protection this month, we look at phishing. Phishing is a form of social...

Back to School Back to school in 2020 is expected to be a lot different from in the past. Currently, Prince George’s County is planning...