The problem: it was never really about the paperwork You know you should get your family’s affairs in order. You have known for a while. The password list, the accounts, the documents, the plan for if something happened to you. You are not lazy, and you are not disorganized about the rest of your life. … Read more
Ask any IT professional how many copies of an important file should exist and you will get the same answer: 3-2-1. Three copies. Two on different media or in different formats. One stored offsite. The rule has been the standard for digital preservation for two decades. Photographer Peter Krogh distilled it in The DAM Book … Read more
A family loses someone. Then, in the weeks that follow, they lose something they never saw coming: the photos, the email, the accounts, sealed behind a password no one has and a company policy that will not bend. Two decades of pictures. The inbox that anchors every other login. All of it out of reach … Read more
The call used to give itself away. A stranger’s voice. A story with a hole in it. A greeting that did not quite fit the person it claimed to be. For years, protecting an aging parent from phone scams meant teaching the old tells, and for years that mostly worked. It does not work now. … Read more
This summer, criminals broke into Brinks Home. Not a house Brinks protects. The company itself. SecurityWeek reported the disclosure on August 3: an extortion group called ShinyHunters got into a customer-data system, demanded payment, did not get it, and published roughly 41 gigabytes of files. Have I Been Pwned, the breach-notification service run by security … Read more