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Comcast has just announced that their servers have been hacked. They say they have found no evidence that any sensitive customer data has been stolen, but if you have a Comcast account I suggest changing your password ASAP as a precaution.
The hackers apparently gained access to Comcast’s webmail servers, not the servers containing their customers’ personal and financial data. But how do they know for sure? I say better safe than sorry. [Read more…]
Abobe has just released an emergency update to their ubiquitous Flash Player software to plug a serious security hole that could easily grant hackers total control of your computer.
It’s obvious that Flash has become a favorite target for hackers in recent years, and the engineers at Adobe have their hands full trying to combat the nearly constant threats. [Read more…]
If you own a domain name for a website or blog, you’re probably familiar with the emails that your domain registrar sends out every year asking you to verify the contact information for your domain.
Up until now you could simply ignore those emails and nothing drastic would happen, but not anymore. Ignoring those emails will now result in your domain being suspended by the registrar!
New regulations just announced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) specify that your domain registrar must suspend your domain if you fail to respond to a verification email within 15 calendar days. The suspension will remain in place indefinitely until you verify the information. [Read more…]
Facebook announced yesterday that they plan to start placing fewer text-only posts from Facebook pages into the newsfeeds of the users who have “Liked” the pages.
This change will effectively limit the reach of a given page’s posts even further than the already diminished reach due to the rather unpopular EdgeRank algorithm. [Read more…]
If you use the free version of LogMeIn, you’ll have to start paying if you want to keep using it. The popular remote desktop service has now dropped the free access plan that was so popular for so long.
Existing users of LogMeIn Free have 7 days to sign up and pay a discounted yearly fee that starts at $49, but new customers will be required to pay $99 a year.
If you’d rather not pay to use a remote desktop service, there are still several options available to you. Just click the links below to check them out and see what will work best for you: [Read more…]