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Security
DNS is the system that converts websites' domain names (e.g. google.com) to an IP address. But not all public DNS servers are created equal. Right now, you're most certainly using your ISP's default DNS. But it may be slow, vulnerable to attacks or
Security
Group chat is now the backbone of millions of businesses - from small teams to Fortune 500 enterprises -. The first service that comes to mind is Slack, the one that started it all. But Slack is not perfect: the app is well-known for using too much RAM and making
News
8tracks internet radio and playlist service has been hit by an attack where over 18 million accounts' email and passwords have been stolen. Only users who signed up with their email as a mode of login have their password in the database. If you signed up to 8tracks via
deal
NetGEL has made the NetX Pro app free today on Google Play. > NetX PRO - Android Apps on Google Play [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tools.netgel.netxpro] Discovers and manages all devices connected to the network WiFi/Mobile This feature-rich app allows you to
Security
HumbleBundle is widely known in gamer communities for its Pay What You Want bundles, with several levels of perks according to the price you pay. But HumbleBundle is not limited to games and game-related offers. Indeed, in the latest book bundle, you'll find interesting reads if you are
News
The data was left exposed to the view of everyone by Deep Root Analytics, a contractor used by the Republican Party. This is not a case of hacking, but rather misconfiguration. All those records were kept in an unprotected Amazon S3 bucket. What is the data? The data exposed included
Vulnerability
Researchers from the Israel-based Check Point Software Technologies [https://www.checkpoint.com] discovered a new vector of attack that puts at risk hundreds of millions users of the most popular media players, including VLC [http://www.videolan.org], Kodi [https://kodi.tv] (formerly XBMC), Popcorn Time, and Stremio [https://www.
Virus
(UPDATE : New Decryption Tool [https://github.com/gentilkiwi/wanakiwi/releases] should work on any Windows from XP to 7, provided you don't restart your PC.) WannaCry - also called Wana Cryptor 2.0 - has impacted over 100 countries. This ransomware is not the first of its kind,
Virus
Avira, the German antivirus company, now offers all its services in one unified subscription: Avira Prime [https://www.avira.com/en/avira-prime] For a monthly fee - 9.95€ for 5 devices or 12.99€ for 25 devices - you can access all the premium apps from Avira. This includes
Security
Yahoo disclosed on Thursday [https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/150781911849/an-important-message-about-yahoo-user-security] what may be the biggest breach of all time : 500 million users accounts were breached in 2014 by a 'state-sponsored actor'. It may be the US government itself (through the NSA) or Russia, or China. If you
Security
All computers die at some point. If yours died today, would you be able to recover all your documents, videos and photos? Sure, there's now cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and the likes), and you can still backup to external drives. But do you backup often enough?
Privacy
How much does your smart home know about you? That was the question that Charles Givre, a data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, set out to answer in a recent experiment. Givre has an account on Wink [http://www.wink.com/about/], a platform designed to control, from a single
