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 […]

recently, my vpn provider, Nordvpn added new servers to the Aussie territory. to my dismay, after connecting, i found that my geolocation has been leaked after doing a check with http://whatismyipaddress.com/ i contacted their support and was given a very unsatisfactory answer. somehow, after telling them that it is their vpn server problem, then did they fix it and soon the problem dissipated into the air […]