Has your spouse, child, or friend ever used your PC? No problem, right? Until you use it again, and certain desktop icons are missing, or files or pictures have magically disappeared. Its far too common for these errors to happen when someone else is using your computer. Although it can be frustrating and concerning, there are ways to […]
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Tax Refunds Delayed Due to Historic Tax Fraud This year, tax refunds for those claiming an Earned Income Tax Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit have been delayed until after the end of February. The delay in refunds caused several reasons for speculation, however the IRS is reporting it is due to increased measures taken
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Government Accounts Breached Recent reports claim the police forum, PoliceOne, was successfully breached, leaving over 700,000 user accounts exposed. These accounts included contacts from the NSA, DHS and FBI. The breached files reportedly contained usernames, passwords and email addresses. A PoliceOne official made the following statement to IB Times regarding the breach, “While we store only limited user
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Technology continues to advance, as quickly as on a daily basis. It can be hard to keep up with all of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including televisions, appliances, watches, phones, tablets, automobiles, and everything in between. IoT Devices Lack Security One of the biggest concerns as technology continues to advance, is the lack of security for
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Uninstalling unused or unwanted programs can help your computer in various ways. By uninstalling these programs you will be, Adding hard drive space Increasing computer speed – By removing programs you’re not using, they won’t have access to run in your background; therefore, increasing PC speeds. Enhancing your computer security – Many times we ignore
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Is Kaspersky in Hot Water?? The Russian newspaper Kommersant recently broke news regarding the arrest of Ruslan Stoyanov, the head of Kaspersky Lab’s investigations unit. Stoyanov was arrested in December for treason allegations. It is reported Stoyanov served as a major to the cybercrime unit of Russia’s Ministry of Interior for six years prior to his employment
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HP Recalls Thousands of Lithium Batteries HP recently disclosed they will be recalling an estimated 101,000 lithium batteries due to overheating and fire hazards. According to The Verge, the devices impacted include HP ENVY, HP ProBook, HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario’s that were purchased between March 2013 to October 2016. HP has created a recall and
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I’m sure at times you think, “Wow–they said it AGAIN. Think before you click. We get it already!!”. But do you? Do you still look at your emails to confirm they’re coming from someone you know. Are you checking the email address it came from to ensure it’s legitimate? Do you hover the links to be sure
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Windows 10 operating system offers a variety of sign on options. These options range from signing on with a password, pin and/or a picture. You also have the option to require the sign on function to be enabled each time the computer “wakes up from sleeping”, or never use the function. Follow the steps below
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Update 1/27/2017: A draft of President Trump’s executive order on cyber security has been released. According to Washington Post, it reads as though it could have been written by the Obama administration. You can read the draft of the executive order here. It is worth mentioning, in several areas of the order, one of the
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