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Do you use a password manager app to create, manage and store all of your passwords?
If so, you need to know that all password managers are potentially insecure and any vulnerabilities that arise could put ALL of your passwords at risk of being compromised at any time.
Why do I say this? Because of the evidence that keeps popping up from time to time. [Read more…]
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Apple has just released an emergency update to iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8 to patch a very serious security flaw.
In a nutshell, this flaw allows NSO Group’s really nasty Pegasus spyware to infect Apple devices that are running one of the affected versions of iOS.
I’ve been using a service called Constant Contact to write and deliver my daily Tech Tips Newsletter emails for about two years now, and for the most part it has worked out fine.
But recently I’ve been receiving reports from subscribers that they’ve stopped receiving my emails.
I did some investigating and found out that this seems to be a new, but quickly growing problem with emails sent via Constant Contact.
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As you probably know, I’ve been testing the “Preview” version of Windows 11 for a while now, and I think this is a great time to express my initial thoughts about it.
I’ll just say at the outset that after using Windows 11 for a while, one word comes to mind: Pointless.
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As I reported in this post, Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 will officially be released to the masses on October 5.
I’ve received a ton of feedback about this with about half the respondents saying they’ll be sticking with Windows 10 and the other half chomping at the bit to install Windows 11 ASAP.
If you happen to fall into the “I want to install it ASAP” camp you can compare your PC’s hardware configuration against the system requirements listed on this page to see if Microsoft believes Windows 11 will run on your machine. [Read more…]