In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him […]
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Microsoft today released updates to plug security holes in its software, including patches to fix at least 74 weaknesses in various flavors of Windows and programs that run on top of it. The November updates include patches for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer that
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Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits. Health industry experts say the
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FaceApp Under Scrutiny Due To Russian Connection The enormously popular App that allows you to change a person to an octogenarian or a sexy looking teen is under scrutiny for privacy concerns. When you install the App on your smartphone, the first thing you
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Jony Ive Leaves Apple I wasn’t entirely surprised to read this news. After all, Sir Jony has been with Apple since 1992 and their most recent innovations haven’t exactly taken the world by storm. However, his departure for greener pastures was big news a couple
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New AMD X570 Chipset Motherboards Begin To Roll Out Several manufacturers have unveiled new motherboards based on the AMD X570 chipset including Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and Asrock. Pictured below is the new Gigabyte X570 Master, one of the new boards based on the X570
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Google Stadia To Launch In November What is Stadia? That’s a good question. From what I can gather, Google Stadia is a revolutionary new subscription gaming platform, which allows you to play games through the cloud. In simple terms, Google Stadia lets you play modern
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Will Star Citizen Ever Be Finished? Star Citizen is the brainchild of Chris Roberts, the British head of Cloud Imperium Games, who began development on the game in 2011. Since then, the game has been crowdfunded to the tune of more than $250 million, the
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Opera updated again today. I don’t know what’s new under the hood but there are two changes I noticed. One is the Easy setup button that has moved off the Speed Dial page and up on the bar in the top right-hand corner. It’s not
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Welcome to the new Dave’s Computer Tips Tech News where we’ll try to bring you the latest news on all technology-related matters. Nothing moves quite as swiftly as computer-related technology and keeping up with developments is what we do here at DCT, so let’s get
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So, you thought the Facebook scandal regarding Cambridge Analytica scraping tens of millions of users’ data was bad enough. Now, respected investigative journalist Brian Krebs has recently revealed that Facebook has been hosting more than 100 cybercriminal/scammer groups with members numbering in the hundreds of
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Last Saturday, 31st March, was World Backup Day. One day in the year which is dedicated to spreading the word on just how important it is for everyone to backup their precious data. It’s a frustrating fact of life for most computer repairer’s that, despite
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Microsoft has been busy updating their various products on this February 13, 2018 “Patch Tuesday”. Given the horror show in January of this year, many tech-savvy people are recommending that you defer these updates until the unpaid beta-testers have finished grumbling about how these patches
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Britain’s National Health Service Following the global cyber/ransomware attack this week, it transpires that the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is still using Windows XP on a reported 90% of its systems, even though XP has not officially been supported by Microsoft since April 2014.
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