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Well, the hacking of major business websites continues unabated, and the latest breach involves one of the largest financial services firms in the world.
JPMorgan Chase and Company has announced that hackers have stolen the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses from a whopping 83 million customer accounts, making this one of the largest security breaches in history. [Read more…]
A couple of weeks ago I told you that Microsoft had hinted that they were planning to release Windows 9 in mid-2015.
Well, the timing was accurate, but the name was wrong. The new version of Windows will be Windows 10, not the wildly-speculated Windows 9.
Why they decided to skip the name Windows 9 and jump straight from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 is anyone’s guess.
My own guess is they realized the name “Windows 8” left such a bad taste in the mouths of many users that they felt they really needed to distance the new version version of Windows from Windows 8 in name as well as in functionality.
At any rate, based upon the preview video they released this morning it looks like Windows 10 will indeed be a major improvement over Windows 8. [Read more…]
It seems like every time we turn around there’s another critical update that we need to install for Adobe Reader in order to patch a whopping security hole, and there’s another one waiting for us right now.
But this time there’s a bonus: a critical update for Adobe Acrobat as well. You can download the updates for both Adobe Reader and Acrobat on this page.
Or… You can simply uninstall Adobe Reader altogether and install an excellent free replacement called Sumatra PDF. This post explains why and how.
Acrobat is worth keeping in my opinion, but be sure to update it immediately whenever a new update for it is released.
Well, the group of Russian hackers who have hacked into so many major websites and user accounts recently have struck again. This time the victim is Google and their users.
Around 5 million Google usernames and passwords have actually been posted online, and it’s likely that many times that amount were actually stolen. [Read more…]
One of the most irritating things about Facebook is the confusion surrounding our Facebook privacy settings.
There are so many of them that it’s difficult to get a grasp on exactly who can see all the various photos, posts and other bits of info that are posted on our Profile and Timeline pages.
And to make matters worse, the folks at Facebook seem to enjoy changing our privacy settings (often without our knowledge) just after we get finally get them set exactly the way we want them. [Read more…]