“In a cautionary tale to those who favor government-mandated backdoors to security systems, Microsoft accidentally leaked the key protecting its UEFI Secure boot feature.”
This keeps happening, when will people learn that any backdoor is a step in the wrong direction when it comes to security?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/microsoft_accid.html
I’ve written plenty of times about the importance of backups, multiple backups even. If you know you need to backup, but aren’t sure where to begin, you could do worse that take a look at the options here and start backing up your important data. Seriously, now, before a hard drive crash, malware infection, or…
I spent over an hour helping one of the tenants of our office building with an email problem. He explained to me that he couldn’t send email, even though he was receiving email just fine. Figuring this was a server issue, or a simple settings issue, I agreed to go over and check all of…
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From a British study on the dangers of kids being approached by dangerous people online, I noticed this little nugget: “The report, called Digital Dangers, found that nearly half of young people living at home say their parents only know some of their online activities. And one in ten said their parents knew nothing about…
I can’t say that I’m surprised by the announcement that Bloglines will be shutting down. Once upon a time, the service was one of the first to offer a web-based RSS reader, as opposed to a local client that polled RSS feeds for updates. As someone who uses quite a number of machines, that was…
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Linked – Microsoft Accidentally Leaks Key to Windows – Nice work! https://t.co/hDQhVATH25