Unfortunately, the short answer to my headline question is, no. You cannot rely on cybersecurity experts to protect your personal financial information, as evidenced by the numerous breaches of personal information at companies employing large staffs of such experts. Marriot, Equifax, J.P. Morgan, Yahoo (twice), and now Capital One, among many others, have all fallen […]
Air Force Tells Americans They Aren’t Taking the EMP Threat Seriously Enough
Are you familiar with the idea of an EMP attack on America’s electrical grid? Have you considered the possible ramifications of such an attack on your standard of living? If you’re an average American, chances are that you haven’t heard of an EMP attack, and therefore haven’t prepared for it at all. A new study […]
Is Your Small Business Disaster-Ready?
I write to America’s entrepreneurs, small business owners, retirees and those planning on retiring soon. America’s small businesses are the nation’s job-creation engine, but 25% of businesses hit by a disaster don’t open again. That means many of America’s small businesses simply aren’t prepared for a disaster. Is yours? The Small Business Administration has developed […]
Get Your Guns and Your Training—NOW
Originally posted February 4, 2013. Are you aware of New York State’s new gun laws? Big city New Yorkers voted in Governor Cuomo and deserve what they got. Away from NYC and surrounds, many local law enforcement officers have no intention of implementing a shred of Cuomo’s insanity. New Yorkers now have both the opportunity […]
How to Help Your Child Before Tragedy Strikes at School
I first posted this piece on February 15, 2018, since then it has been one of the most read on YourSurvivalGuy.com. If you have children in school, take a moment to read through the information here that could prepare them for the worst. Be sure to also read Part II. Tragedy struck yesterday in Parkland, […]
Will the Next “Battle of Britain” Be a Cyber War?
In the years leading up to World War II, the Western democracies, especially the British, worried about the growing power of Hitler’s Luftwaffe. The advent of real airpower had brought a scary new possibility to war; targeting of civilian areas from the air as a weapon of terror. Without today’s precision-guided bombs, the air war […]
Is Your Credit Card One of the 100 Million Just Breached? Would You Even Know?
A hacker recently stole information on 100 million credit card customers from one of the biggest card companies in the world. According to The Wall Street Journal, the hacker was able to access information like “names, addresses, ZIP Codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth and self-reported income, the bank said. Consumer data including […]
What Happens When the Disaster Hits You?
Americans are used to seeing natural disasters on the evening news. In a country as large and diverse as the United States, there are troublesome natural events almost every day. Quakes in California, floods on the Mississippi, lava flows in Hawaii, etc. But when you see a disaster on TV, it is remote, and certainly […]
When the Lights Go Down in the City
Recent power outages in Manhattan served to remind everyone of what losing electricity in a high-density city means. The NY Post reported: Power outages struck much of Manhattan for five hours Saturday evening, plunging subway stations, Broadway theaters and skyscrapers in the heart of the Big Apple into darkness on the 42nd anniversary — nearly […]
Captain’s Log from Your Survival Guy’s Fourth of July Weekend
Here are some observations from Your Survival Guy’s Fourth of July weekend, when my family and I took our boat—the Tom Sawyer—to Mattapoisett to visit my parents, and on the way home got stuck in the fog (more on that shortly). Family trips are a little different now than they were a few years ago […]
