CybersecKyle
CybersecKyle
Kyle
I love everything tech. You can check out more about me on my website. I blog about cybersecurity, technology trends, and best practices in IT. I even share the occasional tech review every now and then.
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Part 6 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series is a travel routine for the laptop and phone that leave the controlled environment built in the previous guides.A normal trip changes which failures...
Part 5 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series turns the accounts, devices, and self-hosted services from the earlier guides into a small monitoring routine.The fastest way to make home security...
The vibeMotivated.I have that excited, slightly impatient feeling that comes when I want to build things again. Ideas are starting to feel more real, and I keep wanting to see how far I can take them. There is a good kind of momentum...
OverviewThis one is landing Sunday instead of Friday. Friday got away from me, but the security news did not slow down while I caught up. The clearest pattern was pressure on the systems that concentrate trust: identity servers,...
Most of the tech support I have done for family, friends, and everyday users starts before I touch the device.Someone hands over a phone with a strange warning, a laptop that will not sign in, or an email they are afraid to open. They...
I am back with Season 3, Part 4 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are talking about light self-hosting behind a reverse proxy: useful, fun, and much safer when exposure is...
The vibeLow battery week.Not bad. Not memorable. Just warm, slow, and a little foggy. I was not really feeling like myself, and most of the week had that “I am here, but not fully here” feeling.Highlights🌡️ The office was way too hot,...
I am back with Season 3, Part 3 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are cleaning up secrets for side projects: API keys, tokens, credentials, environment files, and the bad habit...
It has been a bit since I updated this page, and quite a lot has changed since January. Some of it has been exciting, some of it has been hard, and most of it has happened while I was just trying to keep the normal parts of life...
I added a new /ai page to explain how I do and do not use AI on this site.
Waze is one of those apps that we use without thinking twice about the implications.You open it because traffic is bad, the route looks smarter than whatever your car suggests, and you would rather know about the crash before you are...
OverviewThis week had a very familiar pattern: attackers kept aiming at the places where normal business systems concentrate trust. File-sharing controllers, identity-aware edge appliances, developer platforms, AI workflow tools, CMS...
I am back with Season 3, Part 2 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are making domain email harder to spoof with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, without turning DNS into a self-inflicted...
I am back with Season 3, Part 1 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are treating accounts like assets: inventory them, remove stale access, and stop handing out admin rights like...
The vibeThis was a quieter week overall. Not a whole lot of big updates, and I did not get as much time as I wanted to work on my iPhone or macOS app projects. There was still some World Cup watching, a little Linux tinkering, a family...