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Microsoft Patches & Updates for June 2010

June 9, 2010

Microsoft Updates time is here again, and this is an exceptionally large and very important batch of patches and updates. Exactly how many will apply to you depends on your Windows/Office versions, but in total Microsoft has classified 3 updates as “critical” and seven as “important”, designed to fix a total of 34 vulnerabilities. On [...]

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Dreaming the Future

June 6, 2010

I’m sure we all wonder at times what advancements the future holds. One way to free up your imagination to roam unrestricted is to compare the past with the present. My brother sent me the first image below as a matter of interest and I used the details to dig up further information. In 1956 [...]

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Microsoft Patches & Updates for May 2010

May 12, 2010

Microsoft Updates time is here again! On the second Tuesday of each month Microsoft releases software patches & updates for their various products, so this is a very important day for all Windows users who care about their privacy and security [full summary here]. Why? Well.. Often a Microsoft patch or update will close a [...]

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Social Networking Self-Defense: Part II

April 29, 2010

In Part 2 of this series I want to talk about protecting your social networking account, and it all boils down to… PASSWORDS And No… you probably don’t already know everything you need to know about passwords, so you really need to keep reading. I’m going to show you exactly some of the ways the [...]

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Microsoft Patches & Updates for April 2010

April 14, 2010

On the second Tuesday of each month Microsoft releases software patches & updates for their various products, so this is a very important day for all Windows users who care about their privacy and security [full summary here]. Why? Well.. Often a Microsoft patch or update will close a vulnerability that, if left unaddressed, could [...]

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Social Networking Self-Defense: Part I

April 12, 2010

How do you safeguard your privacy and security in the all too public social networking scene? That social networking sites have become a raging phenomena is all too obvious. As of this writing Wikipedia has 179 entries in its “List of social networking websites“. Seventy-nine of those claim memberships in excess of one million and [...]

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Critical Internet Explorer Update

April 8, 2010

Patch Internet Explorer now! Microsoft’s latest security update for Internet Explorer has been out for a few days now and I haven’t seen any reports of unexpected/undesirable effects. consequently, this is one you should install promptly. Here’s the babble from Microsoft on Security Update MS10-018:

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Are Passwords an Insight to Your Personality?

March 27, 2010

Password selection and personality? A couple of days ago I read a book review in one of our local newspapers, in which the authors (of the book) suggested that the computer passwords you select can reveal a lot about your personality. Let me say right up front that if that’s the case — if your [...]

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Internet Crime At Frightening Levels

March 16, 2010

The FBI has released a report that clearly indicates that the level of Internet crime is not only just as bad as we suspected it was, but getting much worse, with losses more than doubling between 2008 and 2009. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) which issued the report is a partnership between the FBI [...]

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Microsoft Patches & Updates for March 2010

March 10, 2010

Yes folks, it’s Patch Tuesday again! On the second Tuesday of each month Microsoft releases software patches & updates for their various products, so this is a very important day for all Windows users who care about their privacy and security [full summary here]. Why? Well.. Often a Microsoft patch or update will close a [...]

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