InfoAve Premium Issue #676 — Now Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to our InfoAve Premium newsletter ,or if you’re a subscriber and you didn’t receive it because your ISP blocked it, you can read it online here. If you’re not a subscriber please join us…it’s free. Visit this page to sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Highlights… Read More »
For several years now, we’ve been warning Yahoo users against using Yahoo services, because of lax security and, in our opinion, failing to update hardware and software to protect its users from privacy violations. Now it comes to light that a half-billion Yahoo users have had their Yahoo accounts hacked. Here’s the story from The Washington Post: Yahoo says… Read More »
Microsoft Email Accounts & Windows Live Mail Some of you are using Windows Live Mail and are now having problems with receiving email from Microsoft accounts. A Microsoft account is any email address ending in any of the following: @outlook.com @hotmail.com @live.com @live.ca @msn.com It seems that Microsoft is trying to get users to use the Mail app… Read More »
Private Browsing Isn’t So Private Surprisingly, despite the names the Big Three browsers give to private browsing modes – Internet Explorer’s In-private Browsing mode, Google’s Incognito mode and Firefox’s Private Browsing mode – there’s really not much private about private browsing. Every site you visit is tracked by your ISP regardless of whether you’re using a private mode,… Read More »
FBI Says Ransomware Will Net Criminals $1 Billion This Year //from CNN// Cyber-criminals collected $209 million in the first three months of 2016 by extorting businesses and institutions to unlock computer servers. At that rate, ransomware is on pace to be a $1 billion a year crime this year. The FBI told CNN that the number “is quite… Read More »
Account Killer – A Killer You’ll Like We’ve all done it – we get caught up in the moment and we’ve signed-up for something that sounds really cool at the time. Alas, it turns out to be not so cool and we don’t use it, or we get flooded with emails, or messages or people wanting be connect… Read More »