Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
If you have an account with the URL shortening service Bitly, the company recommends that you log in to your account ASAP to change your password and reset your API key.
Of course this will only affect you if you actually have an account with Bitly. It’s entirely possible to use the service to shorten a URL without opening an account, and plenty of people do.
If you do have a Bitly account, follow these steps to change your password and reset your API key: [Read more…]
The “Covert Redirect” phishing scam has been around for a long time, but scammers are now using it to harvest the email addresses and passwords that victims use to log in to their Facebook accounts.
The scam works like this: You visit a website and like what you see, but you are asked to either “Create a new account” or “Sign in using Facebook” before being allowed to see or do certain things with the site (leave a comment for example). [Read more…]
A couple of days ago I wrote about a massive security flaw that affects every version of Internet Explorer since version 6, and to their credit Microsoft really got on the stick to push out an update to patch the hole in each and every version of IE as soon as possible – which turned out to be this morning.
The surprising thing about this suite of patches is that Windows XP is included among them. Microsoft had initially suggested that a patch for XP would not be issued, but they obviously changed their mind – most likely due to intense public pressure. [Read more…]
Microsoft has announced that every version of Internet Explorer since version 6 has a massive security flaw that allows hackers to place viruses directly onto your PC, even if you are running up-to-date anti-virus protection.
And yes, this includes YOUR version of Internet Explorer so there is really no reason to check.
All you have to do to have your PC “catch” a virus is to visit an infected website with your Internet Explorer web browser. That’s all. You don’t have to click on anything, just visit the site, and wham – you’re infected! [Read more…]
If you enjoy reading Shakespeare, it might interest you to know that you can read all of his classics online for free.
Our friends at MIT have put all of Shakespeare’s writings online in HTML form and you can read them right in your favorite web browser. You can also print them if you wish.
Simply head over to shakespeare.mit.edu and click on the appropriate links!
As you probably know, most everything one could want to read or experience can be found online today. And if it’s in the public domain (as are the works of Shakespeare), it’s absolutely free for the “taking”!
Whatever you’re looking for can probably be found online within minutes with a quick Google search. Enjoy!