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Friends don't let friends use the same email address and password for every site, get LastPass or 1Password, use a randomly generated password for EVERY SINGLE SITE.

The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". Most of them won't have a tech background or be familiar with the concept of credential stuffing so I'm going to write this post for the masses

The Chromebook cases for Everybody Wins! Iowa turned out even better than expected. Thanks in Urbandale for such a fantastic job! www.russellstrophy.com

Time for everyone to go upgrade their home routers to a new model and apply the latest firmware updates available after a full reset?

That Russian malware that infected over 500,000 devices is even worse than we thought A few weeks ago we learned that a piece of sophisticated malware called VPNFilter infected more than 500,000 routers and other devices around the world. VPNFilter was spotted in some 54 countries, …

Having a great time working with Everybody Wins! Iowa after dsmHack to get some of their IT processes modernized and easier to manage without a degree in rocket surgery. We've eliminated a couple pain points and reduced their monthly costs quite a bit, and hopefully we can reduce them even more by next school year. www.everybodywinsiowa.org

Effective January 1, 2018 I've moved to providing primarily software development/DevOps consulting services through ComputerPhreaks, though I may still take on the occasional project pertaining to hardware/network upgrades and hope to continue my work with non-profit organizations through dsmHack and Tech Journey as well.

Great idea to promote contributions to open source!

Hacktoberfest 2016 - DigitalOcean Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software.

devopsdays Chicago on Twitter “You can’t devops without a yak ”

So many approaches to education, and some are more fun than others.

Playing with Legos is More Valuable than Learning Algebra - Isaac Morehouse I was homeschooled. My mom really wanted to have a highly structured and rigorous curriculum for us. She didn’t. She tried – lord knows the number of books she purchased at annual curriculum...

Heads up support folks! TeamViewer confirms number of abused user accounts is “significant”

TeamViewer confirms number of abused user accounts is “significant” Investigation continues to show external password breaches are cause, spokesman says.

Want 2FA security for your VPN but don't want to invest a ton? Check out Authy's open source OpenVPN integration.

authy/authy-openvpn authy-openvpn - Authy Open VPN Two-Factor Authentication