Saturday, May 14th, 2016
When Microsoft announced Windows 10, it added a feature called Wi-Fi Sense that had previously debuted on the Windows Phone operating system. Wi-Fi Sense was a password-sharing option that allowed you to share Wi-Fi passwords with your friends and contacts in Skype, Outlook, and Facebook. Here’s how Microsoft described the ...
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
Around 40 percent of all Google Chrome users have some kind of browser extensions, plugins or add-ons installed, but how safe are they?
The company plans to enforce developers starting this summer, to "ensure transparent use of the data in a way that is consistent with the wishes and expectations of ...
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
NoScript, Firebug, and other popular Firefox add-on extensions are opening millions of end users to a new type of attack that can surreptitiously execute malicious code and steal sensitive data, a team of researchers reported.
The attack is made possible by a lack of isolation in Firefox among various add-ons installed ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
Steve at GRC put together a utility that configures older versions of Windows to never upgrade to Windows 10. Description from his site:
The name “Never 10” is a bit of an overstatement, since this utility may also be used to easily re-enable Windows operating system automatic upgrading. But the primary ...
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Sunday, March 20th, 2016
Here is an excellent overview of Qubes OS, which I am mostly converting over to for my everyday operating system.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD0_gq_ugw8[/embed]
What is Qubes OS? From it's own website:
Qubes is a security-oriented operating system (OS). The OS is the software which runs all the other programs on a computer. Some examples of ...
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