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Windows 10 will be free for 7 and 8 users
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be free for users upgrading from Windows 7 and 8. There is an asterisk behind that statement however, and depending on your world-view, it’s a big one. First off, it won’t be free forever – only for a year after its release. It’s not clear what that means
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Flash Zero-day in the wild
Adobe has confirmed that a recently discovered vulnerability in the current version of Flash for Windows, Macintosh and Linux is actively being exploited on the internet. Adobe is planning to release a patch the week of January 26th, but did not confirm a specific date. Though security vulnerabilities are nothing new to Flash, this particular
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How to be a secure Mobile Citizen
Laptops and cellphones were once the sole domain of high-powered business executives, but thanks to the proliferation of high-speed internet and falling hardware prices, they are pervasive not only in professional environments, but in just about any walk of life. As you can probably guess, this also means an exponentially expanded attack surface for cyber
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Hardware Failure – Are you ready?
The big headlines have been all about Sony’s security breach, and the massive data leak that occurred. What you didn’t hear about was how large parts of their technology infrastructure were rendered unusable. Most of their workstations were severely infected and inoperable for at least several days (some for weeks) and a large portion of their network
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Is the Internet becoming polluted?
As many of you know, one of my specialties is framing complex technology concepts in more simple, human-relatable terms. When people have a better understanding of the tools they use, they have a tendency to use them more efficiently, effectively and to take better care of them. A thoughtful article in the Atlantic written by security
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Six common internet gotchas you should avoid
As a consultant, I work on many, many different computers throughout the year. Though the machines are used in a wide variety of industries and organizations, I still see a large majority of them suffering from the same handful of issues. In the hopes of lowering those numbers in 2015, here are the six most
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