Nice and useful new app to find out quickly if any of your online accounts have been hacked. “When you first start up the app, it informs you of how your email address is used once you enter it, stating that it is only passed to the Have I been pwned? service and not sent anywhere else. Once your account is added, it will show you a list of any breaches that your email address is known to have been involved in. A handy feature of 'Hacked?' is that you can enable back...
I use W10 on one machine and W7 on another. Because MS has decided to break its own guidelines regarding ethical behavior, by using deceit to cause people to upgrade when they in fact, did not so with, I’m giving folks some articles, a sort of “how to” avoid or undo those actions of MS. Of course that won’t change the fact that new machines will come with W10 on them, and that MS’s other OSs will expire and stop getting support/patching at some point and become more vulnerable to att...
Now, and in the past, when you straightened the horizon of a photo, or cropped it, annoying white triangles were generated which had to be cloned to fill, or significant areas of your photo would be lost when Photoshop put the new borders inside the pre-crop image to avoid those white areas. Now, the same technology which is used in the patch tool, content aware move/extend tools and spot healing brush will be part of the crop tool as well. Here’s how you will be able to u...
Windows 10 will require 2GB RAM (minimum) to run on x32 machines starting this summer. The RAM requirements for x64 machines is 2GB and won’t change. What this means is that OEMs will have to put at least 2 GB on every x32 machine they sell if they intend to put W10 on it. Older machines which are owner upgraded with lower amounts of RAM (i.e 1 GB) will still run, but slowly. This change will happen with the next major update (”Anniversary Update”). Original Sourc...
The latest scammers show knowledge of customers’ phone numbers, PC serial numbers and their support history. This was first reported in arstechnica back in January 2016, but it turns out, in Dell’s Forums in July 2015 there was a customer post about a similar incident of tech support calling with all the computer’s info and support history. When this customer pressed to know what was going on he got shut sown with "Dell is aware of this and other complaints a...
Martin Brinkmann, the owner of gHacks is a very skilled and responsible reviewer. He reviewed Fences 3.0 on 5/20. Therese were his conclusions: “There are two types of computer users out there when it comes to the desktop of the PC: those who keep it in pristine condition and don't put any files or shortcuts on it, and those who use it as the main location for downloads, shortcuts, files and folders. You have probably seen desktops in the past that overflow w...
One of my favorites…Morley Safer. Forty six seasons on 60 Minutes. He was due to retire and that was announced just last week. He was born in Toronto…earned a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2009. He also collected 12 Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, two George Polk Memorial Awards and the Paul White Award from the the Radio/Television News Directors Association. It was one helluva career…he even caused change of the Army’s R...
After making Satya Nadella sob from shame, MS has now taken starkers criticism to heart and has changed its ways telling you when your planned update to W10 will happen, and this has been going on for the past couple or three months. Not to worry, you can reschedule or cancel the upgrade. Thanks, Mark! Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-now-providing-a-time-and-date-that-your-pc-will-auto-upgrade-to-windows-10
Talos (a Cisco subsidiary) has found a vulnerability in the popular software 7-Zip. It exists in the code that handles the UDF files (Uniform Disk Format). This fault is in the file which handles DVD video and audio, and it’s used for other optical disk formats, and involves flawed input validation. This flaw has been fixed in the 7-Zip v. 16.0 released this month. Sooo…if you, like many, use 7-Zip, PLEASE UPDATE your software to protect from attacks targeting thi...
Eight universities will be working with IBM and a cloud based version of Watson to better understand how to detect and fight cybercime. The computer will be fed huge amounts of data and system security reports including IMB’s X-Force library which contains more than 100K of documented vulnerabilities. They hope this will also bridge gaps in knowledge of individuals working in IT security. One of Watson’s pluses is that it can work with unstructured data, since the average organizatio...
Folds like a book, lighter than the weight requiring an FAA license (less than 250 grams)…your own paparazzi and faithful puppy. This is truly cool…even the holes for air are too small to allow adult fingers to be hurt. It hovers and follows or leads…you can play a sort of frisbee game with it…a $600 frisbee, that is. Anyway, it’s here: http://gethover.com/ Nice article at Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/26/hover-camera-drone-zero-zero-robotics/...
The reason I’m writing this is because I saw the review on The Windows Club and wanted to add my two cents to Ankit Gupta’s review. This is NOT an “instead of” app. This will not replace your current AV software. But no AV software is perfect, even if you’re an exemplary user of the internet, with great browsing habits (you do use a guest account to browse, right?) is perfect. The AV test results themselves show that. So…if something sneaks by what do you do. You sh...
Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and Mail.ru and perhaps more, have leaked usernames, email addresses and unencrypted passwords. The security firm that discovered the breach, Hold Security, believes that many of the accounts involved in this leak have not been previously leaked. According to its analysis there are over 272 million unique email and unencrypted password pairs, where 42.5 million have not been previously leaked. Hold Security was able to get a hold of the data for ...
The Windows Club published about a very useful app: “Hardware Identify” which (especially when upgrading or updating) ends the notifications regarding “unknown devices or hardware”. “Hardware Identify will help identify unknown hardware on your system. This program does not help you download drivers but helps let you know what the hardware is so you know what drivers to find. For example say you just reinstalled a computer and the device manager shows multiple ...
Sorry, Cortana no speaka Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, Google, DuckDuckGo…or anything but Edge and Bing. Microsoft's reason for doing so is that the changing of the search provider and browser supposedly compromises the search experience on the operating system. “Unfortunately, as Windows 10 has grown in adoption and usage, we have seen some software programs circumvent the design of Windows 10 and redirect you to search providers that were not designed to work with...