On Wednesday, an attorney for one of the cops charged with lying about the Laquan McDonald shooting dropped his effort to force independent journalist Jamie Kalven to testify in his trial, but held on to the possibility he would call Kalven’s longtime ...
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This is the year you start a new trend and be more responsible with your online accounts. This episode talks about how resetting your passwords on all your accounts is a good practice and why you should start with all the retailers you used this year.
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Families suing the State of Illinois over the death of their loved ones at the Quincy veterans’ home could be winning a lot more money after action in Springfield Tuesday.
Prosecutors began presenting their case against three officers charged with covering for Jason Van Dyke. The defense calls the charges baseless.
There has been a huge push and talk around getting websites to be more secure by enforcing HTTPS, the secure protocol. However, the messaging has a negative impact that may lull users into a false sense of security. This episode talks about why HTTPS doesn't necessarily mean the site is fully secure or can be trusted.
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Chicago's Transit Oriented Development to attract investment is raising concerns about displacement in some communities and disinvestment in others.
This podcast talks about password practices to keep your accounts secure but not about the usernames. This episode goes over how you should think about your usernames that you create for accounts and how those can be used to track and socially engineer you.
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The reduction includes 8,100 white-collar workers. At the factories, 3,000 workers could lose jobs in Canada and another 3,600 in the U.S. GM has offered buyouts to 18,000 retirement-eligible workers with a dozen or more years of service.
Chicago was hit with a blizzard that dropped over a foot of snow — big enough to close schools, disrupt airports and knock out power.
Protesters on Friday urged shoppers to stay away from a Target in Chatham, one of two on Chicago’s South Side slated to close in February.
Just hours after he shot and killed Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke met in a Chicago police station with other officers who were on the shooting scene and with detectives tasked with investigating the incident.Prosecutors say they discussed the shootin...
URL Shorteners are a why to take long, complicated URLs and make them easier to post, email and print. However they can be used to hide or obfuscate malicious sites. This tools, tips and tricks episode talks about GetLinkInfo.com that you can use to see what the URL truly is.
A shortened URL to test with, cut and paste it into GetLinkInfo.com - http://bit.ly/2EuZcMo (this goes to my blog, binaryblogger.com)
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The Holiday Season is upon us and that means an increase of online and overall retail purchases. This episode goes over recommendations and tips to keep your activity safer and more secure.
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With more than 2 million people expected to travel through Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports this week, the Transportation Security Administration has some reminders about what Thanksgiving staples can clear airport security and what must be checked...
Higher education lawyers and college administrators in Illinois say there are important discrepancies that need clarifying between Illinois law and newly proposed federal rules on how colleges should handle sexual misconduct allegations.The federal rul...
In 2015 the United States rolled out the EMV Chip and Pin security features on credit cards, after dragging feet for 10 years on it. The idea behind it was to reduce fraud. A new study showed it barely made a dent. This episode goes through the EMV failure and some of the reasons why it was dead on arrival.
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Dr. Tamara O’Neal and pharmacist Dayna Less are being remembered as dedicated women who had a passion for caring for people. Both women were gunned down at Mercy Hospital in Chicago on Monday afternoon at the hands of O’Neal’s ex-finance.
Security is a collection of technology, policies, procedures but also it's a state of mind. Thinking about security through a veil of assumption or simplistic approaches can be dangerous. This episode goes through some of the mental pitfalls you should avoid.
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