Beware Adobe Acrobat Reader DC First, if you’re wondering what Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is, according to Adobe… “Adobe Acrobat Reader DC software is the free global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents…” Installing the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe’s free PDF reader, it attempts to install an extension in… Read More »
Shodan – Search Engine for the IoT As most of you know, Google, Bing, Yahoo and other popular search engines, crawl the Web looking web pages, images and other types of files. But there are other types of search engines too. Today, we’re going to tell you about a search engine for the IoT (Internet of Things), called “Shodan”.… Read More »
Yahoo Hacked Again… Time to Run Away From Yahoo Two days ago we wrote an article advising all Yahoo users to close their accounts due to Yahoo’s lack of security and apparent inability to deal with it. Just when we thought it could not get any worse with Yahoo … it just got worse. This time, Yahoo admits that… Read More »
Online Remote Computer Repair Scams Are Everywhere Every week, we get several emails from people who have fallen for a computer repair scam. They have given their credit card information and access to their computers to criminals — and it usually always starts with a phone call. It goes like this. The phone call comes unexpectedly, out of… Read More »
It’s Time to Close Your Yahoo Accounts Yahoo has been a failing company for more than a decade. They’re the foster child nobody seems to want. Yahoo’s ownership has changed hands several times over the years. It’s no secret that Yahoo has fallen on hard times. With an aging infrastructure and a technical support team that seems to… Read More »
Why It’s Probably a Good Idea to Leave Your Name Out of Your Email Address (This is from Cloudeight InfoAve Premium newsletter, Issue #687 ) It’s really cool to use your first and last name in your email address. However, there’s a good reason why you shouldn’t. And here it is. Suppose your name is the same as… Read More »