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Tech Alerts 2016 Archive








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Alerts Archive 2016




            December 19, 2016

Several brands of home routers are under attack.

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            December 19, 2016

Evernote's employees can read your data anytime.

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            December 19, 2016

Microsoft's update to Win 10 broke the DHCP so people were kicked off the internet.

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            December 11, 2016

The lockout screen on an ipad can be bypassed.

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            December 11, 2016

Millions exposed by manipulated images

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            Novemeber 30, 2016

Law allows government to search all your devices.

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            Novemeber 30, 2016

86 apps available in third-party marketplaces can root 74% of Android phones.

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            Novemeber 30, 2016

Iot used in DOS flaw maybe present in millions of home routers.

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            Novemeber 30, 2016

Under active attack, effecting Tor.

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            Novemeber 30, 2016

AT&T's $35 DirectTV streaming will now cost $70 if you don't act fast.

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            Novemeber 30, 2016

This will explain how to stop spam from showing up on your Mac calendar.

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            Novemeber 21, 2016

3 million Android phones in the US have been hacked.

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            Novemeber 21, 2016

Apple has decided to throttle the iPhone 7 on AT&T to match what Verizon is doing.

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            Novemeber 21, 2016

Fake news stories spread dissinformation but may be making money on your clicks.

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            Novemeber 7, 2016

Fake apps are showing up in the app store for Apple.

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            October 23, 2016

Smart Devices, called loT, were used in a denial of service Friday to distrupt the internet.

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            October 2, 2016

400 apps have turned countless phones into listenig devices

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            September 27, 2016

This teen site is leaking passwords

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            September 22, 2016

Do not open any emails from Yahoo go out now to your act. and change your password, at least 12 chars!

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            August 25, 2016

Until you check for software updates DO NOT click any links in email on your phone! Unsure how to check for updates? Click here.

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            August 19, 2016

Be aware of your digital security

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            August 15, 2016

Effecting business in 23 countries

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            August 12, 2016

It is now possible to copy your hard disk using the sounds it makes. Time to upgrade to solid state drives.

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            August 12, 2016

Older modles are vulnerable to being unlocked

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            August 11, 2016

How secure is your data in the cloud? It is being moved all over the world, do those countries have the same laws?

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            August 9, 2016

Facebook has decided to force ads on everyone, just because.

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            August 8, 2016

Due to overheating, which couldn't be fixed with software.

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            August 8, 2016

Point-of-sale service suffers from malware attack

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            August 4, 2016

3.7m maybe affected by this hack of patient records.

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            August 2, 2016

Yahoo user info possibly breached

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            July 28, 2016

Be very careful what free wi-fi services you attach to.

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            July 28, 2016

If you are on a site that asks for user name and password for any social media account, think twice about doing it.

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            July 9, 2016

I just installed Chrome on my Mac and was opening a page and noticed a green square in the upper right corner of the browser. Clicking on it I found it was Avast virus program running.
In April of 2015 I read this article:

http://www.thesafemac.com/avasts-man-in-the-middle/#more-1829

It convinced me to uninstall Avast from my Mac. To my knowledge the issue with certificates has NOT been resolved. I urge everyone to disable Avast from running in Chrome using the following steps:

1. Locate the green ball icon in the top-right corner of your Google Chrome browser.
2. Right-click on it and select 'Remove from Chrome…'
3. Confirm removal by clicking on 'Remove'


            July 9, 2016

Much of the product line is exposing customers to self-replicating attacks that take complete control of their computers.

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            July 7, 2016

For the past 5 months this nasty malware has infected 10 million phones.

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            July 7, 2016

Apparently there are now 3 malware attacking Macs.

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            July 6, 2016

A new malware that targets Macs and alows hackers access to your full machine has been discovered.

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            June 29, 2016

Evernote is going to allow ONLY 2 devices on the free plan.

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            June 11, 2016

After the news of all the leaked Twitter passwords, Twitter has frozen accounts.

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            June 10, 2016

This app is allowing your site to be compromised

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            June 10, 2016

The top 5 PC manufactures leave themselves open to hacks from OEM updatters bundled into software.

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            May 27, 2016

New study links cellphones and cancer risk. PLEASE read the article!

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            May 26, 2016

Think twice about using an unknown USB charger.

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            May 25, 2016

Microsoft has pulled a 'nasty trick' when it comes to the upgrade to win 10 pop-up.

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            May 7, 2016

Security experts now say that forcing users to change passwords frequently is a security risk.

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            March 2, 2016

A third of all computer servers using the HTTPS protocol - often represented by a padlock in web browsers - were vulnerable to so-called Drown attacks.

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            March 2, 2016

Apple's newest update may have inadvertantly turned off the ethernet connection.

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            February 20, 2016

The carrier document arrives in an e-mail that claims to be delivering an invoice, opening the document allows the ransomware to install if Office macros are turned on in Word.

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            February 20, 2016

The keypad happily sends unencrypted PINs out to anyone listening.

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            February 20, 2016

People who aren't sure if an app on their Mac is safe should consider avoiding unsecured Wi-Fi networks or using a virtual private network when doing so.

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            February 20, 2016

Adobe has stopped distributing a recently issued update to its Creative Cloud graphics service amid reports a Mac version can delete important user data without warning or permission.

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            February 20, 2016

Breach comes a year after a previous hack compromised 300,000 people.

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            February 20, 2016

When you receive a message from, or are on the brink of sending a message to, someone using a service that doesn’t support encryption, you’ll see a broken lock in the top-right of the screen.

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            February 20, 2016

Twitter has applied a fix to what it described as a "password recovery bug" that has exposed nearly 10,000 accounts on the microblogging site.

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            February 19, 2016

Apple has come up with a fix for this error

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            January 6, 2016

There is a bug in the wifi burgler alarm that allows it to be jammed

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            January 1, 2016

AVG has installed a plugin that has bypassed Chrome security and exposed users info

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