Nvidia Dropping Driver Support For Older Operating Systems
16-January-2018
AMD long ago dropped support of 32-bit operating systems, and now, Nvidia is following suit. The long-anticipated move by the company will mean the end of driver support for…
Microsoft May Remove Windows Paint From Operating System
15-January-2018
“Paint” is one step closer to being a thing of the past.
In May of this year, Microsoft caught a surprising amount of flak when they announced that the venerable…
Virus Spread Through Facebook Messenger Mines For Cryptocurrency
13-January-2018
Facebook scams are fairly common occurrences, owing to the sheer size of the platform’s user base. It’s no surprise that there’s a new one making the rounds that you…
Microsoft Word Gets Update To Disable DDE After Malware Concerns
03-January-2018
In recent months, Microsoft Word has been getting a fair amount of bad press, thanks to an old-but-still-supported feature called DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange). This is the feature that…
DirecTV Genie DVR May Have A Major Vulnerability
02-January-2018
If you have a Genie DVR system, you should be aware of a major security flaw in the firmware that could allow a hacker to take complete control over…
Always Connected Laptops Could Be The Next Generation Of Hardware
01-January-2018
What’s the next big thing for the PC world? If the industry’s major players have anything to say about it, it will be the “always-on” PC.
Forget about plugging into…
Data On 123 Million US Households Leaked Online
30-December-2017
Security researchers at UpGuard recently made a terrifying discovery in finding an unprotected Amazon S3 server containing several databases belonging to a data analytics provider called Alteryx.
While the server…
USB Drives Could Be Huge Factor In Data Loss, Theft
29-December-2017
Most people agree that the use of USB drives increases efficiency and boosts productivity, which goes a long way toward explaining their popularity, but these handy little drives can…
Popular Android Keyboard App Collected Private Information, Has Been Breached
28-December-2017
How many apps do you have on your smartphone? Do you know how much data they’re collecting about you?
Most people have scores of apps installed (and often hundreds), even…
Large Number Of HP Models May Have Keyloggers
27-December-2017
HP is in the news again. If you missed the initial story, earlier in the year, it was reported that an audio driver that came pre-installed on a number…