Yes, simply opening a Word or RTF document could get you into hot water — The Exploit Mathew Hickey, co-founder of the security analyst firm Hacker House in NC, recently discovered the following exploit. This is considered a new zero-day threat and is pretty serious. Basically, he discovered that opening a Word document or RTF document could open a remote search window to execute malicious commands.

Sleep, it’s not just good for you and me — Tabs If, like most people in today’s world you have many multiple tabs open in your browser, you are likely hogging resources your computer could be using elsewhere, ultimately slowing down your PC, regardless of how new or fast it may be. Microsoft Edge Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have been implementing…

Snap-On corporation admits to a successful data breach — Tools Giant I imagine just about every adult in the US has heard of Snap-On tools, they are one of the global leaders in manufacturing tools. They also sell under a few other brand names that you may not have heard of, such as Norbar Blue-Point Blackhawk Mitchell1 Williams The Incident In an ever…

Over 100,000 sites were affected, but only 50% were patched at the time of writing this. — Tatsu If you own, manage or just host a WordPress website and use the Tatsu plugin, read on, this is for you. Tatsu is a really useful plugin that offers far more in browser editing features than the stock editor and as mentioned, it’s currently installed on over 100,000 websites globally. Vulnerability …

Yep, after 20+ years, Apple has pulled the plug on the iPod — The iPod It really is hard to wrap my head around the fact that the iPod has been around since 2001, but it has. Whether you love or hate Apple, there’s no denying how important this piece of tech was. It revolutionized the music industry. In the early 2000’s P2P networks were…

Your stored data is not secure — Home Security Cameras Over the last few years, home security systems have been becoming more popular, the kind you set up yourself and don’t need to pay a big company like ADT to monitor. There are also some budget options such as Wyze Cam. Like anything in this world, you get what you…

iPhone poor battery bugging you? — If you have an iPhone and it’s experiencing poor battery life, then read on. Is your iPhone running IOS 15.4? If so, Apple just released a small update that addresses this. Don’t be put off by it being a small update, 313MB in size. It actually addresses three key areas. …

If you access Facebook on an Android device, read on — Do you have an Android phone or other Android device? Has it ever logged into Facebook? Of course, there’s a very high chance that if you have an Android device and use Facebook, you’ve likely logged into Facebook on it at some point. Google Play Store Poisoned App It’s generally considered a safe bet to…

It just got easier, thankfully! — Microsoft Browsers For years Microsoft has done everything it can to get you to use their browser instead of other popular browsers such as Chrome or Firefox. They also realized that attempt after attempt their browsers kept falling short of the competition and finally last year they changed the back end of…