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Do you have an account with the giant financial services firm Capital One?
If so, there’s a good chance that some very sensitive information about you was recently compromised in a massive data breach.
Yesterday Capital One published this press release detailing the incident.
You can read it for yourself to get all the details, but here are the most important takeaways from it: [Read more…]
If you use Gmail as your email provider you probably realize how important it is to prevent hackers from accessing your Gmail account.
Once a hacker is logged into your Gmail account he/she can use it to send SPAM and/or malware to other people in your name, via your account. Not good!
What you might not realize is hackers don’t really need to log into your Gmail account directly in order to use it to send SPAM and malware to other people!
Security firm Kaspersky (the makers of Kaspersky Antivirus products) has just reported that the number of computers infected with Password Stealing Malware was up 60% during the first half 2019.
The vast majority of those infections involve Azorult, an extremely dangerous trojan-type virus that hackers use to steal a wide variety of user files and personal data (including passwords).
Kaspersky also reported that scans with Kaspersky Antivirus found Password Stealing Malware infections on 25% of all computers that are running the software.
CCleaner has been the preferred system cleanup utility for millions of PC and Mac users for quite some time.
Now you can get many of the same benefits of the PC and Mac versions of CCleaner on your Android phone or tablet.
CCleaner for Android will clean the junk out of your device and make it run faster and with fewer hang-ups and glitches. I’ve been using it on my phones and tablet for a while now, and I love it.
Here are a few of the ways CCleaner for Android can help optimize and speed up your Android device: [Read more…]
Do you write a blog that’s still serving its pages to your visitors’ web browsers in a non-secure (i.e. unencrypted) state?
If you’re not sure, it’s very easy to find out. Simply visit your blog with any web browser and look that the URL in the address bar.
If the URL starts with http:// instead of https:// that means your blog is not being served to your visitors’ browsers in encrypted format.
If that turns out to be the case, your blog’s traffic is likely to drop to pretty close to zero after Mozilla releases the Firefox 70 update in October.