Year: 2018

A friend called me the other day to say that she got an email asking for money to prevent the sender from sharing a comprimisng video of her watching porn.  Normally she would have ignored […]

The ability to influence who leads our country may be more powerful than the ability to blow things up The 1966 movie “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” was a fictitious comedy, but […]

Facebook has announced tools to enable both Facebook and Instagram users to better manage the time they spend using those apps. That will include an activity dashboard, a daily reminder and enhanced ways to limit […]

My wife, Patti, is pretty ho-hum about most of the products I review. But when I put Lenovo’s new Smart Display in the kitchen, she loved it, especially after I showed her how easy it […]

Google employees are now using a physical USB key to log on to their devices and, according to Krebs on Security, none “of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when […]

I don’t know what was more sophisticated, the Russian hacks or the U.S. Justice Department’s impressive computer forensics team that was able to break down these hacks in great specificity. As you’ll see from the indictment, the hackers employed both malware and “human engineering” to obtain information from the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.  […]

I could probably write a series of columns on my pet peeves about little and big things that bug me about technology, but I’ll start with ones that have annoyed me in just the past […]

I remember calling up a friend and telling him I had good news and bad news. The good news was that I just signed-up to write a column for one of America’s largest newspapers, but the bad news was that I had to write about computers rather than important stories like politics. […]

Here are my LA Times columns from 1983 […]

Scroll down for my LA Times columns from 1984, including two that were about “1984.” And one about the brand new Mac showed to me by “Apple’s young chairman,” Steve Jobs. Click here  for Larry’s 1983 […]