Every software or hardware we use is created by humans, so it may contain bugs, sometimes serious. Chips from Broadcom and Cypress Semiconductor are affected by serious vulnerability. It allows to to decrypt data sent wirelessly. This vulnerability got little strange name “KrØØk”. It mostly affects FullMAC WLAN chips, which are present in many iPhones, iPads, Macs, Amazon… Read More »
Some users can’t learn from their own mistakes. Many users are using weak passwords and passcodes, often using common words or passwords like “12345” or year of birth as 4-numbered passcode on their mobile phone. Microsoft checked more than 3 000 000 000 leached login credentials from various sources, like public leaked databases or databases from criminal acts.… Read More »
By many data your browser sends to webpages you visit, webpage can create an unique ID, called simple digital fingerprint. Deleting cookies won’t help. And as for cookies, webpages can track your activity on other webs you are currently keeping in tabs in your web browser or even webpages you visited before deleting cookies. Apple introduced its Intelligent… Read More »
I remember my first smartphone – it was Microsoft Lumia 640. Though I liked it, I had to sell it, because Microsoft was slowly shutting down its mobile operating system. Later I had two Android smartphones and then I finally settled at iPhone 6s. It’s great smartphone, but next year I will have to upgrade, because iPhone 6s… Read More »
Yes, we are talking about Cloud Print. It’s one of the oldest current services that Google offers. Google is known for killing many of its services after relative short time. I don’t think this will be applied on YouTube or Gmail, at least not in upcoming years, because these services make great financial profit and they are very… Read More »
In short, ransomware is a malicious software, which installs itself on victim’s computer and then, or after some time to mask its presence, it begins to encrypt your files. Your files are then encrypted and unusable till you pay ransom to attackers via Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency – and sometimes, attackers won’t send decryption key to unlock your… Read More »
Want to know something? Google it! Yes, Google is the most popular search engine in the World, except countries where is Google Search banned, like China or North Korea. It’s known fact that Google tracks you, especially if you have Android smartphone and if you are using Google Chrome, currently the most popular web browser. More and more… Read More »
I remember times of flashing effects on web, visit books on almost every private web, blinking clocks and Flash games. Internet in 2006 was full of Flash technology. Because of lack of current technologies, like HTML5 and WebGL, most effects was done by Flash. You had to install plugin from Adobe to run this content, so it was… Read More »
My main browser on Mac is Apple’s Safari, but I have also secondary browser for special purposes. I was using Google Chrome, because it was running Flash in sandbox and in the past I needed Flash. But since Flash is dead and I have privacy concerns with services from Google, including its browser, I moved to Firefox. Mozilla… Read More »
Downloading torrents is popular. Torrents do not automatically mean cracked or pirated software, as some media may say. It’s just other way of downloading files, though it’s sometimes abused, but the same applies to classic downloading. It’s something like CD/DVD burners – if you own one, you are not automatically movie or music pirate. One of the most… Read More »
When you order an Internet connection from your ISP, you will also get some data, like DNS server “number” (address), to get your product work. DNS is good service. In short, instead of typing long numbers with dots – IP addresses – in your web browser, you will type something like “www.dsl.sk” and that’s all. No nothing-saying numbers,… Read More »
Apple streams its events on Apple’s webpage and on iOS and Apple TV apps. Users on other platforms are limited. As for WWDC 2019 Event, even Apple desktop users were limited to by Apple recommended Safari, Chrome or Firefox, though in some cases it was possible to watch stream on other browsers. As for Windows users, Apple recommended… Read More »
