Google to shut down Picasa on May 1, 2016 We know a lot of you use Picasa to manage your pictures. According to Google’s Picasa Blog, the will be transitioning from Picasa to Google Photos. If you use Picasa and choose not to use Google Photos, you’ll need to wait for a while as Google gets things organized.… Read More »
Microsoft and NSA: Partners in Spying on YOU? In the past few days we’ve had several people send us articles about Microsoft and Windows 10 and spying. We’ve written about this before, but there seems to be no end to bloggers and so-called journalists digging up around and coming with silly conclusions, such as comparing Microsoft to the NSA.… Read More »
Microsoft issues critical patch for all versions of Windows after flaw found in Hacking Team leak Source: International Business Times “Microsoft has issues a critical security update for all versions of Windows to patch a vulnerability that could give hackers complete access to your PC(Reuters)” Microsoft has taken the unusual step of issuing a critical security update which… Read More »
Microsoft Windows 10 Leak Reveals New Offensive Emojis Article from Forbes Technology Have you heard? Microsoft Microsoft has its mojo back. UnderSatya Nadella the company is now radical, cool and determined to take risks. Apparently even with its emoji… This news comes from the wonderfully dedicated Emojipedia Blog. This site, which digs through all major operating systems for new… Read More »
Self-destructing virus kills off PCs From BBC Technology The malware also tries to fool security tools by flooding hard drives with data A computer virus that tries to avoid detection by making the machine it infects unusable has been found. If Rombertik’s evasion techniques are triggered, it deletes key files on a computer, making it constantly restart. Analysts… Read More »
About this article… Again, with permission of our friends at Emsisoft, we’re featuring this article about email safety and how you can tell spam and scams from safe email. Don’t scoff and think you know how to tell – it’s not as easy as it use to be. Scammers and spammers have honed their skills and now nearly… Read More »