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If you or someone you know owns a Panasonic Toughbook CF-S 10 laptop, the company might have just recalled its battery pack.
Apparently the defective batteries were contaminated with flammable materials during the manufacturing process, resulting in a potential fire hazard. [Read more…]
Livid users are hitting social media in droves to complain after finding that their PCs have been automatically updated to Windows 10 without their knowledge or permission.
Until recently a user would have to intentionally click their approval before the Windows 10 update would be installed on his/her system, but that’s no longer the case for users who have Windows set to install updates automatically. [Read more…]
Every day I receive emails from folks who have updated their PCs to Windows 10 and subsequently discovered that they don’t like it.
In most of those emails I’m asked if it’s possible to reverse the update and re-install the version of Windows they were using before. [Read more…]
Scammers have been using ransomware to extort money from Windows users for a good while now, but over the past weekend a bunch of unlucky victims were hit with the first ransomware attacks to ever successfully target Apple Macs.
Ransomware works by encrypting the data on a computer’s hard drive, then informing the user that he’ll have to pay a ransom to the hacker in exchange for the decryption code.
In this case the scammers managed to infect version 2.90 of the popular “Transmission” app with the insidious KeRanger ransomware virus. The infected app was released on Friday, and users who downloaded it immediately infected their Macs with KeRanger. [Read more…]
As you probably know, Apple and the FBI are currently waging a war of wills over whether Apple should assist the FBI in breaking into dead terrorist Syed Farook’s employer-issued iPhone.
In a nutshell, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is fighting a court order demanding that the company work with the FBI to retrieve the data from the phone.
Cook says he believes that creating a “back door” into the phone’s encrypted storage area will make all iOS devices vulnerable to hacking, putting their users at risk of losing their privacy. In my opinion, that’s a dubious claim at best. [Read more…]