Security & Privacy Updates

Firefox Vulnerability that gets people to unwittingly click on something so hackers can steal your info

Firefox Vulnerability – known about for 17 years

Virus / Scam Alerts!,Good stuff to know,News,Security & Privacy Updates July 5, 2019

While many consider ditching Google, including its web browser Chrome, due to privacy concerns and in response to recent actions, Firefox has been one of the primary alternate options. A recent Firefox exploit demonstration that uses a combination of a malicious HTML file, ClickJacking, iframe and SSH bugs may change[...]

1903 is here, what have we seen?

Tech How-to,Good stuff to know,Security & Privacy Updates July 2, 2019

We’ve done numerous Windows 10 Build 1903 Updates, ranging from new machines just out of the box to systems that are several years old. Biggest Tip for Keeping your Hair during the 1903 Update… The biggest factor we’ve seen that affects successful completion is the update status of the[...]

VLC Media Player Security Flaw!

Security & Privacy Updates June 24, 2019

As more computers are being built without DVD drives and the associated DVD Player software, consumers are frequently downloading third-party programs to be able to play these and other higher quality video file types. One of the biggest and most trusted names is VLC Media Player. Last week (June 21st),[...]

Change your Facebook password now!

Good stuff to know,News,Security & Privacy Updates March 21, 2019

Facebook has just admitted that it has found many places – hundreds of millions of places, maybe – where it saved users’ passwords to disk in raw, unencrypted form. In jargon terms, they’re known as plaintext passwords and it means that instead of seeing a password scrambled into a hashed form such[...]

Severe RCE Flaw Disclosed in Popular LibreOffice and OpenOffice Software — The Hacker News

Security & Privacy Updates,Virus / Scam Alerts! February 5, 2019

It’s 2019, and just opening an innocent looking office document file on your system can still allow hackers to compromise your computer. No, I’m not talking about yet another vulnerability in Microsoft Office, but in two other most popular alternatives—LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice—free, open source office software used by[...]

Caribou Coffee Stores Hacked for months… but what about your business?

Security & Privacy Updates December 21, 2018

For businesses today, taking credit cards and storing information on a computer is a normal practice, though is data security? In today’s world, it isn’t “whether you will be hacked”, it’s more a matter of “when will you be hacked”. We’ve seen a number of companies hacked over the last[...]

Switches, Routers, and Network Cables in Patch Panels

UPnP has been a security risk for years, but now it’s WORSE!

Virus / Scam Alerts!,Security & Privacy Updates November 30, 2018

UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) is intended to allow devices inside your local network to open needed ports in your modem/router. This was already an issue as viruses/malware could make a request to have the ports opened and allow malicious communication to go through unfettered. It isn’t supposed to accept[...]

Unpatched MS Word Flaw Could Allow Hackers to Infect Your Computer — The Hacker News

Security & Privacy Updates October 30, 2018

Cybersecurity researchers have revealed an unpatched logical flaw in Microsoft Office 2016 and older versions that could allow an attacker to embed malicious code inside a document file, tricking users into running malware onto their computers. Discovered by researchers at Cymulate, the bug abuses the ‘Online Video’ option in Word[...]

Tips for Success with Build 1803

Tech How-to,Good stuff to know,Security & Privacy Updates June 7, 2018

Whether you call it the Spring Creators Update, the April 2018 Update, or Build 1803, the newest build of Windows 10 was released a little over a month ago and we are still seeing problems. While there are bound to be some issues when a major update is released to[...]

11-Tips for Keeping your Computer Healthy during the Holidays

Good stuff to know,Security & Privacy Updates November 9, 2017

Holiday online sales are already beginning for the holiday shopping season, we even just received a mailer today talking about how “Black Friday Starts Now”. Even if you only shop at “reputable” online companies… they are not immune to getting hacked, and some are even famous for having spoofed email[...]

Security & Privacy Updates

Firefox Vulnerability – known about for 17 years

1903 is here, what have we seen?

VLC Media Player Security Flaw!

Change your Facebook password now!

Severe RCE Flaw Disclosed in Popular LibreOffice and OpenOffice Software — The Hacker News

Caribou Coffee Stores Hacked for months… but what about your business?

UPnP has been a security risk for years, but now it’s WORSE!

Unpatched MS Word Flaw Could Allow Hackers to Infect Your Computer — The Hacker News

Tips for Success with Build 1803

11-Tips for Keeping your Computer Healthy during the Holidays

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