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  • Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Critical RCE in Windows Malware Scanner

    Make sure you get this Microsoft update asap. Microsoft’s own antivirus software made Windows 7, 8.1, RT and 10 computers, as well as Windows Server 2016 more vulnerable. Microsoft has just released an out-of-band security update to patch the crazy bad bug discovered by a pair of Google Project Zero researchers over the weekend. Security…

  • Beware! Don’t Fall for FireFox “HoeflerText Font Wasn’t Found” Banking Malware Scam

    For all you FireFox users… The malicious scam campaign, “The ‘HoeflerText’ font wasn’t found,” is back, which was previously targeting Google Chrome users to trick them into installing Spora ransomware on their computers. This time the campaign has been re-designed to target Mozilla Firefox users with a banking trojan, called Zeus Panda. Interestingly, the attackers…

  • Unpatched WordPress Flaw Could Allow Hackers To Reset Admin Password

    For all you do-it-yourself-ers, this is why it’s important to stay current on your core, theme, and plugin updates.  If you can’t find the time, hire me, or another professional, to do it consistently.  Most updates should not be considered “optional.”  They are done to stay ahead of hackers or fix exploit flaws. WordPress, the…

  • How to Make Windows Troubleshoot Your PC’s Problems for You

    Why not let Windows do all the heavy lifting when you have a problem? Windows includes a variety of “troubleshooters” designed to quickly diagnose and automatically solve various computer problems. Troubleshooters can’t fix everything, but they’re a great place to start if you encounter a problem with your computer. Troubleshooters are built into the Control Panel…

  • Warning! Don’t Click that Google Docs Link You Just Received in Your Email

    Did someone just share a random Google Doc with you? First of all — Do not click on that Google Doc link you might have just received in your email and delete it immediately — even if it’s from someone you know. I, my colleagues at The Hacker News, and even people all around the…

  • Source Code for CIA’s Tool to Track Whistleblowers Leaked by Wikileaks

    Yet one more reason why Microsoft should be worried about their market share… “It generates a random watermark for each document, inserts that watermark into the document, saves all such processed documents in an output directory, and creates a log file which identifies the watermarks inserted into each document,” Scribbles’ user guide manual reads. Scribbles Only…

  • The future of the open internet — and our way of life — is in your hands

    Why is net neutrality important and why should you care? The war for the open internet is the defining issue of our time. It’s a scramble for control of the very fabric of human communication. And human communication is all that separates us from the utopia that thousands of generations of our ancestors slowly marched…

  • Fact Check now available in Google Search and News around the world

    Hopefully, this service will expand and people will actually use it… … last October, along with our partners at Jigsaw, we announced that in a few countries we would start enabling publishers to show a “Fact Check” tag in Google News for news stories. This label identifies articles that include information fact checked by news publishers…

  • How to Open Office Files Without Being Hacked

    Here are some good safety tips for opening Word documents, especially since Microsoft seems to be so slow at patching known exploits.  The easiest and most foolproof (so far) method is to open your documents in an online service: either Office online or Google Docs.  This way the desktop exploits can’t be utilized. Microsoft Office…

  • Hackers Can Steal Your Passwords Just by Monitoring SmartPhone Sensors

    People worry about the data their camera and GPS captures, but there are so many hidden sensors that relay data that most users are unaware of. Hackers Can Steal Your PINs and Passwords Just by Monitoring Sensors on Your SmartPhone Do you know how many kinds of sensors your smartphone has inbuilt? And what data…