QR codes are everywhere these days. Businesses use them on billboards, posters, and a variety of other places so we can quickly scan them with our phones to pay bills, check-in at airports, access a promotion, view a menu, and do a myriad of other things.

October is a month often associated with the spookiness of Halloween, but for the tech-savvy, it also marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Founded in 2004 by the National Cyber Security Alliance, this month is designated to shed light on the growing importance of cybersecurity. In our increasingly interconnected world, the threat of cyberattacks looms larger than ever, impacting not just corporations and governments but also the everyday lives of individuals.

While many of us enjoy mobile internet access through 4G/5G when out and about, connecting to free public Wi-Fi is still desirable as it saves on data usage and is generally faster.

Over the last few years, many businesses and individuals have opted to move their data to cloud storage. Options like Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and SugarSync offer many different benefits compared with storing files locally. These benefits include ease of access, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and security, but is cloud storage really as secure as we like to believe?

A vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228, also known as Log4Shell or LogJam) in the Java-based logging utility Log4j has caused widespread panic on the internet as security experts rushed to patch the flaw.