The best way to prepare for needing an installation disc is to create one before you need it. I'll review some approaches.

There are signs we can use to determine if a hard drive is about to fail, but it's also common for a drive to fail without any indication at all.

Security questions are a cornerstone of much internet security. I'll look at what they are, how they fail, why you should avoid them, and what to do if you can't.

The results are in for last year's most common passwords. The implications are depressing, but important.

Sandboxes and virtual machines share some characteristics, but they are fundamentally different technologies. I'll look at both from a high level.

There are many reasons pictures don't show up in email. I'll review the complex world that is email, and some of the things that can go wrong.

Facebook account hacks happen. There are steps you need to take, not only to recover your account but to prevent it from being hacked again.

The rule is, never click on links unless you are 100% certain that they are from who you think they are. The question is, how can you be certain?

Software programs, like people, tend to get larger over time. I'll look at how that happens and a few things you can do to compensate.

UEFI is a replacement for the original BIOS that’s been running computers for almost a quarter of a century. UEFI allows manufacturers to take advantage of the security capabilities of the machines they produce.