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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Topics covered in this issue…
• Be sure to protect your IP security camera(s) with a password
• Q&A: Can you put a DVD drive in a laptop that didn’t come with one?
• Q&A: How can I make Google always display search results in English?
• “Top of the World” – Remembering Karen Carpenter
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Today’s featured tech tip….
Be sure to protect your IP security camera(s) with a password
IP security cameras are among the hottest selling devices on the market these days.
Unfortunately, many consumers don’t realize that connecting a camera to the Internet without protecting it with a password leaves it wide open to snoops, hackers, stalkers and even burglars.
Many cameras come with the password option completely disabled by default, and the ones that come with it enabled typically have a factory default password on them that any experienced hacker can retrieve via a simple Google search.
IP cameras are being exploited daily to snoop on families, ‘case’ homes for burglary and a wide variety of other malicious activities.
There is even a popular search engine (which I won’t link to) dedicated to Internet-connected devices that can help hackers, snoops and burglars locate IP cameras and other IoT devices to exploit over the Internet.
Bottom line: If you value your family’s privacy and security, be sure to protect all of your Internet-connected devices with a strong password.
It isn’t enough just to have a strong password on your WiFi network. It’s also extremely important to password-protect all of the individual devices that are connected to it.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• Q&A: Can you put a DVD drive in a laptop that didn’t come with one?
The short answer is no. The long answer is no, but you don’t need to.
• Q&A: How can I make Google always display search results in English?
All it takes is a quick Settings change.
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
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Rick’s Daily Pick…
I’m constantly amazed at how much computing power they’re building into today’s Windows mini-PCs. This one is especially well equipped.
Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
“Top of the World” – Remembering Karen Carpenter
A truly amazing voice, gone way too soon.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• How Passkeys will usher in a safer, passwordless future
• AMD ‘Zenbleed’ exploit can leak passwords / encryption keys from Ryzen CPUs
• Spotify grew far more than expected, but is still losing money
• Linux is consorting with tech behemoths to improve ethernet standards
• Amazon will now warn consumers of recalls and product safety alerts related to their orders
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