2 Weeks To HTTPS Becoming a Necessity for Websites
It’s July 9th and two weeks from today the web is officially going with full HTTPS as requisite, and that’s a development that’s been a long time in the making. Securing traffic on the internet is an...
View ArticleShoelace, Google’s Well-Funded Foray into the World of Social Media
There’s a whole lot in the news these days about the perils of too much time spent on social media, and particularly so for young people. As is the case with everything, moderation is the key and it’s...
View ArticleChrome Users Encouraged to ‘Rat Out’ Deceptive Sites with New Add-On
Rats have always had a bad rap, and among all the many negative things associated with the rodents is the fact that ‘rat’ is no longer only a noun in the English language. It’s now also a verb. To...
View ArticleUnderstanding Smart Contracts, and Their Relation to Blockchain & Bitcoin
It seems Bitcoin and all the hubbub about cryptocurrency is ‘back on’ now, and there’s a renewed general interest in mining for digital currency. The one takeaway anyone who’s developing an interest...
View ArticleFacebook Set to Introduce its Own Cryptocurrency
With the fact that they barely blinked then slapped with a $5M dollar fine recently with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s a reminder that Facebook is as deep-pocketed as one can be. Not...
View Article40+ Different Device Drivers Found to Have Malware Security Flaw
The scope and extensiveness of malware risks for computing devices is more pronounced than ever before, and that’s pretty much the story from one month to the next these days. At a recent security...
View ArticleOvercoming Issues with Most Recent Windows 10 Update
A while back we had discussed some of the particulars with of the latest revisions available to people running desktop and notebook running Windows 10. Needless to say that encompasses a great many of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Bug Bounty Program: How Does 30K Sound to You?
Most people have claimed a reward of some type at some point in their lives. Return someone’s smartphone to them, for example, and they’ll probably think your honesty in returning it is worth $50 at...
View ArticleSSL Certs: Which One is the Best Fit for You?
Shopping online is pretty much a ubiquitous activity for people all over the world these days, and – not surprisingly – so much so that it’s now the preferred means of shopping for many people....
View ArticleNo Go: Reviewing Parental Control Software for Smartphones
Fair to say that these days – more than ever before – it’s necessary for parents to establish some boundaries as to where their children are able to go on the Internet. We imagine that’s fairly...
View ArticleNew Malware Campaign Targeting 11 WordPress Plugins
If you were to take a poll of everyone who has their own personal website for ‘self’ ventures – whether that’s a blog, a forum for ideology, or anything else ‘self’-oriented in a similar way – you’d...
View Article3 Guaranteed Effective SEO Booster Moves
There’s a whole spectrum of people who have to have at least some level of familiarity with search engine optimization. Those that have SEO anywhere in their job title are a given, but there’s a...
View ArticleUnderstanding Web Hosting Bandwidth, and How Much of It You Need
Bandwidth is a term that’s bandied about fairly regularly in the digital world these days, and not surprisingly given how not enough of it can mean the ‘lag’ that nearly everyone has major difficulty...
View Article5 Top Features for New Mac OS Catalina
It may be the name of a particularly scenic island off the Southern California coast, but Catalina is now also the name of the newest Mac OS that has recently arrived. Like any successful company...
View ArticleBrowser Fingerprinting: The Risk, and What You Should Know
Internet privacy is one of the hottest of the hot button issues in the digital world these days, and it has been for quite some time. There’s so many different ones that are still discusses at length,...
View ArticleWhy the Rise in Phishing Attacks Against Macs?
It’s likely fair to say that people who are loyal to Macs are more fervently that way than their opposites, meaning people who are PC. Whether that has anything to do with Apple’s advertising campaign...
View ArticleFixes for Common iPhone 11 Problems
There’s no family of phones that make quite the splash like iPhones when a new one arrives. These days it’s the iPhone 11 that’s come onto the scene with a whole lot of fanfare, and for good reason....
View ArticleNewly Identified Risks with Horde Web Email
It’s nearly impossible to veer away from web security and privacy concerns these days, as it’s a pressing issue in the digital world and the frequency with which new hacker attacks are arriving makes...
View ArticleGoogle Achieves ‘Quantum Supremacy’: What This Means
It’s pretty much a weekly occurrence for the world’s leading web world giant to be making a splash of some sort, and lately a good many of those splashes have been stark reminders of just how...
View ArticleWhat’s to Know: Wi-Fi Direct
There are few if any shortened terms that are as immediately recognizable as Wi-Fi, and the way it’s universally understood to mean a wireless internet network for people to access the web via mobile...
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