Marcus Bell
Marcus Bell covers applied security: authentication, TLS, phishing, and the everyday decisions that keep accounts and data safe. He focuses on turning advice people usually ignore into steps they will actually follow.
Phishing Attacks: How to Recognize and Avoid Them
The most reliable way into someone’s account is often the simplest: just ask for the keys, convincingly. That is phishing. Rather than defeating encryption or cracking a password,…
Password Security: What Actually Keeps Accounts Safe
Passwords are the front door to almost everything you do online, and most of the advice people carry around about them is years out of date. The old…
Online Security Explained: A Practical Guide
Online security is the set of habits, tools, and technologies that keep your accounts, your data, and your devices out of the wrong hands. Most people meet it…
HTTPS and TLS Explained: What the Padlock Really Means
Every time you see https and a small padlock at the start of a web address, a quiet piece of cryptography is at work protecting your connection. Most…
Data Breaches: How They Happen and How to Protect Yourself
A data breach is what happens when information that was supposed to stay private ends up in the hands of someone who should not have it. The information…
