Hello All! First, I hope everybody had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! As always, there is a scare in the news that needs to be addressed. First, the flaws exist in processors. These flaws are called "Meltdown" and "Spectre". Modern processors are designed to perform "speculative ... Continue Reading
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Hello All! Firstly in this months blog, AOL Instant Messenger is shutting down after 20 years, with its official end date of December 15th. “We know there are so many loyal fans who have used AIM for decades; and we loved working and building the first chat app of its kind since 1997,” AOL wrote on ... Continue Reading
Hello All! One of the tech industries favorite tools, CCleaner by Piriform, has had malicious code detected in two different versions of its software. Piriform, which is owned by Avast, is used by over 400 million customers. CCleaner is a very helpful program that rids computers, PC & Mac, of ... Continue Reading
Hello All! As a new school year begins for students, we continue to see the same scams attack people. However because of so much correspondence being done primarily by email, we are seeing a heightened level in scams currently. The core of these scams continue to be the tech support scams & ... Continue Reading
Earlier this morning, many businesses around the world were hit by a new Petya-esque ransomware attack. Tens of thousands of infections have been reported globally, just one month after the WanaCrypt0r outbreak. We do have a vaccine for the infection, that being said, the vaccine does have to be in ... Continue Reading
Microsoft made good on blocking security updates for computers with windows 7 and 8.1 with certain types of hardware this week, the biggest impact felt by enterprise class users with Windows 7. Microsoft successfully blocked computers with AMD Carrizo processors however, this block was unintended ... Continue Reading