Here are links to my articles that have appeared in the Business section of the Sunday Norman Transcript. I hope that you will find them to be helpful, informative and entertaining. Feel free to email your opinions about the articles to Norman Transcript editor Andy Rieger at editor@normantranscript.com. Please include your name and location in your email.
The titles of the articles as printed are chosen by the Business section editor. The original title is also included.
Bad Guys Leading Sheep To Slaughter, 6-12-05
More About Bad Guys Set To Fleece The Sheep, 6-19-05
Scammers Darken Door To Cyberspace, 6-26-05
Lock The Door On The Bad Guys, 7-3-05
Type Password Here, 7-10-05
Downloads Hazardous To Computer Health, 7-17-05
This Spam Can Lose You More Than Lunch, 7-24-05
Hackers, Crackers And Feds, 7-31-05
Wifi May Be All The Rage - Being Wired Is Better, 8-7-05
Need To Know More? Educate Thyself, 8-14-05
Should You Buy A New Computer? 8-21-05
Those In The Know Will Watch Out For Sept. 13, 8-28-05
Designing Small Office Network Security, 9-4-05
Small Office Network Security, Part 2, 9-11-05
Small Office Network Security, Part 3, 9-18-05
Small Office Network Security, Part 4, 9-25-05
Small Office Network Security, Part 5, 10-2-05
When Your Good Computer Goes Bad, 10-9-05
Computer Forensics 101, 10-16-05
Who's The Best Internet Service Provider? Part One, 10-23-05
Who's The Best Internet Service Provider? Part Two, 10-30-05
Computers: Can't Live Without Them? 11-6-05
Web Services Still A Hard Sell, 11-13-05
Get What You Pay For - And Deserve, 11-20-05
Computer Security Holiday Worth Observing, 11-27-05
Sony Lays A Rotten Egg In Music Lovers' Nest, 12-4-05
Safe Internet Shopping For The Holidays, 12-11-05
Is Big Brother Watching Your Printer? 12-18-05
Do-it-yourself Websites Not For Everyone, 12-25-05
'Content Filtering' Is The Buzz-phrase Of The Day, 1-1-06
Laying Common Computer Myths To Rest, 1-8-06
The Myth Of The Eternal CD, 1-15-06
More Computer Myths Bite The Dust, 1-22-06
Have Fun With Safe eBay Auctions, 1-29-06
Will Apple Do Right With OS X? 2-5-06
OS, King Of The Programs, 2-12-06
Financial Enemies of the Internet, 2-19-06
Privacy Enemies of the Internet, 2-26-06
The Enemies of Internet Free Speech, 3-5-06
Defenders of the Internet, 3-12-06
Interpreting Windows Error Messages, 3-19-06
Are you breaking the law? 3-26-06
HIPAA compliance starts at home, 4-2-06
Internet consumers fight back, 4-9-06
State House bill legalizes spyware, 4-16-06
Is MySpace really your space? 4-23-06
How to spy on your kids, 4-30-06
Virus Alert! Now what? 5-7-06
Say No to Email Snoops, 5-14-06
Elders of the Internet, Arise! 5-21-06
Internet vigilantes keep things interesting, 5-28-06
End of the road for Windows 98, ME, 6-4-06
When in doubt, reboot! 6-11-06
“Genuine Advantage” program hobbles legal users, 6-18-06
Private data loss recipe for disaster, 6-25-06
Cops hire crooks to steal your data, 7-2-06
When in doubt, read the manual, 7-9-06
Back it up before it breaks, 7-16-06
Thank you for the free Internet service! 7-23-06
Windows Explorer is your friend, 7-30-06
Tweak Windows for best performance, 8-6-06
More Windows performance tweaks, 8-13-06
What's Your Internet Profile? 8-20-06
When In Doubt, Scroogle and Tor! 8-27-06
Internet Profiles Bite Students, 9-10-06
Don't Neglect Microsoft Office Updates, 9-17-06
The Death of Dial-up Internet Service, 9-24-06
Insiders More Dangerous Than Hackers, 10-1-06
Flawed "Security" Tech Endangers Citizens, 10-8-06
Fun With Firefox Plugins, 10-15-06
Your Trial-version Computer Will Expire, 10-22-06
Two-factor authentication flawed, but a good move, 10-29-06
New Internet Explorer 7 seeks guinea pigs, 11-5-06
Why e-Voting Stinks, 11-12-06
Delete Your Files For Good, 11-19-06
Techno-thanks For The Good Things, 11-26-06
New Windows Vista Upgrade A Big Ho-hum, 12-17-06
Are You Obeying New E-records Rules? 12-24-06
Computer New Year's Resolutions, 12-31-06
What's Up with Web 2.0? 1-7-07
How To Backup Your Files, 1-14-07
How To Buy A New Computer, 1-21-07
House, Senate bills need support and tweaking, 1-28-07
Internet censorship increases, 2-4-07
New Windows Vista hacked already, 2-11-07
Daylight Savings Time gets a bug, 2-18-07
How Computer Malware Works, 2-25-07
Is My Computer Really "Clean?" 3-4-07
Windows Vista forces unwanted "upgrades," 3-11-07
Things every computer user should know, 3-25-07
Microsoft’s Bill Gates repents, offers to make amends, 4-1-07
More things that all computer users should know, 4-8-07
Even more things all computer users should know, 4-15-07
What happened to Google? 4-22-07
What's wrong with having a REAL ID? 4-29-07
Where have all the “missing” computers gone? 5-6-07
Phone companies, NSA continue illegal spying, 5-13-07
I agreed to what? Beware the EULA, 5-20-07
I agreed to what? Beware the EULA, part 2, 5-27-07
Google Earth, Google Maps make governments uncomfortable, 6-3-07
Internet scams abound, 6-10-07
Computers are not magic, 6-17-07
Discover the rest of the Internet in Newsgroups, 6-24-07
Fix the computer basics first, 7-1-07
Bluespamming latest way to be annoyed and go broke, 7-8-07
Geek Squad busted for stealing porn, 7-15-07
Data security situation remains sadly the same, 7-22-07
University promotes computer security hypocrisy, 7-29-07
How to pick a "computer guy," 8-5-07
Amateur locksmiths stump the experts, 8-19-07
Internet warriors locked in a desperate clash, 8-26-07
Most antispam tech still lame, 9-2-07
Insiders not needed for gas station rip-offs, 9-9-07
What's wrong with Instant Messaging? Part 1, 9-23-07
What's wrong with Instant Messaging? Part 2, 9-30-07
What's wrong with Instant Messaging? Part 3, 10-7-07
Internet Security Basics, Part One, 10-14-07
Internet Security Basics, Part Two, 10-21-07
Internet Security Basics, Part Three, 10-28-07
Internet Security Basics, Part Four, 11-4-07
Internet Security Basics, Part Five, 11-11-07
Internet Security Basics, Part Six, 11-18-07
Internet Security Basics, Part Seven, 11-25-07
Bad guys beat up election websites, 12-9-07
Laptop computers will be king, 12-16-07
Why computer geeks care about politics, 12-23-07
Privacy, schmivacy, 12-30-07
Big Brother loves cell phones, 1-6-08
What's the best Internet security software, 1-13-08
Online dating: fun, addictive, creepy, 1-20-08
Beware of Super Bowl scams, 1-27-08
Identity theft crooks getting smarter, 2-3-08
Physical security just as important as antivirus software, 2-10-08
Get some free computer education, 2-17-08
Judge says TV station hired hackers to steal her email, 2-24-08
Caller ID spoofing, good and bad, 3-2-08
Credit bureau sues the good guys, 3-9-08
Big banks, telcoms have lousy security, 3-16-08
New court privacy rules a good idea, 3-23-08
Time to update Microsoft Office -- again, 3-30-08
$3.7 billion lost to March Madness basketball? 4-6-08
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 infects, wrecks computers, 4-13-08
Scrapping your old computer, 4-20-08
Spam email 2008, 4-27-08
Windows Service Pack snares hapless guinea pigs, again, 5-11-08
Think twice before traveling abroad with computers, 5-18-08
RFID rebels arise, 5-25-08
High speed Internet goes country, 6-22-08
How to lose your important files, 6-29-08
Windows update kills the Internet, again, 7-13-08
Zealous Feds may nab you next, 7-27-08
Google Street View plunders our town, 8-10-08
Busted by Defcon's Wall of Sheep, 8-17-08
Be safer with secure email, 8-31-08
Dear Mr. President: change the locks, 9-7-08
Computers are useless, 9-14-08
Sarah Palin email hack another wakeup call, 9-21-08
Palin email hack saga continues, 9-28-08
Is your doctor breaking the law? 10-5-08
Antivirus is not enough, 10-12-08
Rise of the vote-fraud machines, 10-26-08
Computer: obey, 11-2-08
Computer manufacturers still cheating buyers, 11-9-08
China's Big Brother vs. the world,
11-16-08
Wireless dangers lie ahead, 11-23-08
Forget Black Friday; I'm shopping online, 12-7-08
Silly computer stuff for the holidays, 12-14-08
Antivirus programs lose the fight, 12-21-08
Stay in touch with Skype, 12-28-08
Get a computer education at the library, 1-11-09
Government snooping out of control, 1-18-09
Middle East cyberwar rages on, 1-25-09
Protect your new, shiny laptop computer, 2-1-09
Look out for thumb infections, 2-8-09
Microsoft blows it: Autorun is still running, 2-15-09
The little virus that just wouldn't quit, 2-22-09
Stupid users pick lame passwords, 3-1-09
An Adobe patch a day keeps the bad guys at bay, 3-8-09
Fix, don't trash, that old laptop, 3-15-09
Y2k and Conficker: lessons learned? 4-26-09
Why ruin a good computer? 5-10-09
Online TV comes of age, 5-17-09
Batten down the hatches with encryption, Part One, 5-24-09
Batten down the hatches with encryption, Part Two, 5-31-09
Feds ignore their own advice, pay the price, 6-7-09
Who do you trust? 6-14-09
Will you swallow the phisher's bait? 6-21-09
Respect the power, 7-5-09
Understanding the Internet bad guys, 7-12-09
I got hacked! Well, almost..., 7-26-09
Netbooks are cool, 8-9-09
Clueless lawmakers attack the Internet, 8-23-09
Retiring Old Faithful, 8-30-09
Just when I think that I've seen it all, 9-6-09
Stop being bullied by your computer, 9-20-09
"Scareware" threat grows, 9-27-09
Why is online banking so lame? 10-4-09
The new Windows 7: should you care? 10-25-09
Internet dating revisited, Part One, 11-1-09
Internet dating revisited, Part Two, 11-8-09
Be sure to back up your cell phone, 11-15-09
Beware the big upsell, 12-6-09
Here comes Santa spam, 12-20-09
Computer New Year's resolutions, 12-27-09
Bankers say, "Beware online banking," 1-10-10
Safe places for kids on the Internet, 1-24-10
Where's all of my stuff? 1-31-10
Why Viruses? 2-21-10
A scareware epidemic, 3-7-10
Why Firefox? 3-14-10
Big Brother goes to school, 3-28-10
Smart meters looking pretty stupid, 4-4-10
How fast is my computer? 4-11-10
Free file storage in "the cloud," 5-2-10
Is Facebook safe? 5-9-10
Power surge = dead computer, 5-16-10
Be your own online detective, 5-23-10
Your computer died, but, why? 5-30-10
Why is tech support so bad? 6-20-10
Is Google hacking your wireless network? 6-27-10
Antivirus programs fail the test, 7-18-10
What is digital, anyway? 7-25-10
Be your own movie producer, 8-1-10