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• Planning for the unexpected

  Posted on March 10, 2025 at 02:41 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  We all have a tendency to take many things for granted.

  We take utilities, such as electricity and water, for granted. We assume fuel will be there on demand. We expect our computers and other devices to turn on every time. We assume that our software will run properly the next time we use it. Then comes the day when one or more of these things are impacted. Are you prepared? What can you do without?

  I’m going to discuss several items of technology that I rely on that suddenly failed last week. For some, I had ready backups. For others, I was reminded that I need to take better steps to have a Plan B.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.10.0, 2025-03-10).

  On Security Battery Backup, Disaster Planning, Electricity, Email, Internet, Microsoft 365, Newsletters, Outages, Password management, Patch Lady Posts

• Remedies for common password pains

  Posted on January 27, 2020 at 01:00 CST by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  SECURITY

  By Michael Lasky

  Security company SplashData recently published its yearly list of the most abused passwords.

  The bad news? “123456” still tops the list.

  Pop quiz: How many websites do you sign in to with the same password?

  If it is more than one, count yourself as a member of a very large crowd — computer users who have left themselves wide open to malicious hacks.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.4.0 (2020-01-27).

  On Security AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Password management, Worst passwords list