Category: Tech

ever wonder why so many pple are so glued to their facebook, twitter etc. and find themselves glaring into their iphones, it is a form of digital therapy: “Treatments are being developed for the prevention and management of a wide variety of diseases and conditions, including type II diabetes, congestive heart failure, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, asthma, substance abuse, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and several others.[1][13][14][15] […]

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i read that UEFI boot is slightly faster than legacy. another thing is that UEFI supports trusted platform module which is a form of security that can tell if your computer hardware has been meddled around with such as hacking your computer using sophisticated method. more information about the latest TPM 2.0 can be sought here: https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/wp-content/uploads/TPM-2.0-A-Brief-Introduction.pdf    

today, i encounter a customer whose keyboard on macbook pro has been spilled with water, and thus not working after. she wants it fixed on the very day. i don’t think even apple service centre can have it done cos’ they may need to check if the system is affected by the spill as well. all testing will take time. eventually, i have to give […]

google has been collectively gathering your history data and resell it to adsense. you are especially vulnerable if you are signed-in to chrome browser. i, personally don’t mind and i get to see alternatives that is of interest to me but if you are concerned about privacy and to stop this, you will have to do the following steps: How to Check Your Google History […]

recently, it was revealed that that an audio driver installed on several HP laptops contained a feature that secretly recorded every keystroke entered into the computer. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hp-keylogger-debugging-tool-driver-update,34418.html what about if you are using on screen keyboards or bluetooth keyboards? this is what i discovered on google: Wireless keyboards do encrypt their data, so in theory, the information should be safe, but the quality of the encryption […]

2 factor authentication is a procedure whereby an individual is required to key in both his password and random generated one time password(OTP) for a logon process. this is mostly applied to internet banking and email logon. but there is a security loophole discovered recently. it was found that the random numbers that are either sent to you via sms can be sniffed or hacked. […]

IObit Unlocker is a light-weighted yet powerful tool designed to fix the “Cannot Delete” or “Access Denied” problems. It can “Force” terminate all related processes that prevent you from deleting or accessing files / folders that you need to. IObit Unlocker also provides several useful options to make your work easier, like “Unlock & Delete”, “Unlock & Rename”, “Unlock & Move”, and “Unlock & Copy”. […]

wonder how some ransomware can hit you? yes, they can infect your computer by the websites that you visit. The below link recommend security add-ons for your chrome browsers but i reckon adding all these will slow your browser eventually. so in my opinion, select the one which is the best is good enough. i am advocating for scriptsafe which is a good security extension […]

for the past few days, i collectively gather few solutions for the time being though there is no way as of current to decrypt your files unless you pay up the ransom. disable your smb protocol(note that by doing this, you may not be able to share files across Mac and Windows machines) as in the snapshot below: 2. perform a windows update to patch […]