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Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:23:09 +0000
Computer viruses are nasty little programs that are designed to lay waste to your computer. Some destroy files stored on your PC, while some trigger different software to malfunction. More nefarious viruses steal your confidential information and some even go to an extent to rig a system’s power load and…
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:36:40 +0000
After a series of scandals related to misinformation, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced the company would begin directing users to sources like Wikipedia.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:33:45 +0000
A newly passed bill in the Florida Legislature would bring unprecedented levels of transparency to the criminal justice system.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:41:23 +0000
As an Israeli security firm outlines real flaws in AMD’s chips, the security community questions its motivations.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:50:04 +0000
While some major distributed-denial-of-service attacks have been thwarted this month, the threat remains as critical as ever.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:05:00 -0700
The world of grey IT means both enterprise and consumer users frequently use popular social networking service Facebook on their devices. It makes sense, then, to stay safe while using it.
First things first: Always use a complex passcode with your account and do make sure to set up two-factor authentication.
Now that you’ve done that, you’ll find Facebook’s own privacy settings live inside Privacy Shortcuts in the iOS app. Get to these by tapping the three-line icon at bottom right of the Facebook app and scrolling down to Privacy Shortcuts. The first thing you should do is run Privacy check-up (at the top of the page). Facebook will guide you through your existing settings, change them for maximum privacy, and delete any Facebook apps you’ve forgotten about or no longer use.
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Sysadmin pilot fish is approached by the IT director, who tells fish to create an account for the director that has the same capabilities as the lead programmer’s account.
“Seems he had some kind of beef with the lead programmer,” sighs fish. “But I created the account, set the privileges and gave him the user name and password.
“Three months later, he came into my office accusing me of not complying with his directive.
“I told him that I had indeed complied with his instructions, including showing him that the login capability worked as advertised.
“He told me he couldn’t perform a certain operation when he logged in. I explained that neither could the lead programmer. Only system administrators could.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:14:00 -0700
Microsoft has given us two messed-up patching months back to back, with January leaving blue screens and pandemonium in its wake, and February hitting the latest version of Windows 10 particularly hard. For those of you with some experience in the patching game, it’s more of the same-old same-old.