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Staples May Have Exposed Some Of Its Customer Data

Staples May Have Exposed Some Of Its Customer Data

September 28, 2020BlogNo Comments »

If you're a customer of US retail chain Staples, you may have recently received a notification from the company regarding a problem with their Order Tracking system. According to information in the notification, the data was left exposed due to insufficient protections of the data stream accessed when a customer clicked to review their current and past orders. The company...

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Nvidia Gets In The CPU Game With ARM Purchase

Nvidia Gets In The CPU Game With ARM Purchase

September 26, 2020BlogNo Comments »

If you're more than a casual gamer, you're probably already quite familiar with Nvidia, one of the industry's leaders when it comes to graphics cards. Recently, the company announced a massive $40 billion deal that should push the tech giant to new heights. Nvidia has been in talks for months with Arm Holdings, Ltd. ARM is a UK based company...

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Microsoft Edge Browser Is Included With Latest Windows 10 Updates

Microsoft Edge Browser Is Included With Latest Windows 10 Updates

September 25, 2020BlogNo Comments »

Do you use Microsoft Edge? Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't care whether you do or not, they're force-installing the browser on Windows 10 systems as part of their updates. Ostensibly, this is because the company is retiring their older versions of Edge and replacing them with the new Chromium-based edge. In order to make sure that all of the old versions are...

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Bluetooth Vulnerability Could Affect The Majority Of Devices

Bluetooth Vulnerability Could Affect The Majority Of Devices

September 23, 2020BlogNo Comments »

Do you have a smartphone, tablet, laptop or a "smart" device in your home? Or perhaps the better question is, how many of those devices do you have? Whatever your number is, be aware that researchers have unearthed a potentially devastating Bluetooth flaw that leaves billions of devices all over the planet vulnerable. The recently discovered vulnerability has been dubbed...

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Update Adobe Media Encoder Immediately With Current Patch

Update Adobe Media Encoder Immediately With Current Patch

September 22, 2020BlogNo Comments »

Adobe took the unusual step of releasing an out of band patch to address a trio of serious security issues in Adobe Media Encoder. The program is used by tens of thousands of people around the world to encode audio and video in a variety of formats. The three issues addressed by this patch are being tracked as: CVE-2020-9739 CVE-2020-9744...

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Chrome Update Will Block Resource Intensive Ads

Chrome Update Will Block Resource Intensive Ads

September 21, 2020BlogNo Comments »

Are you a regular Chrome user? If so, you've got yet another reason to love the most popular browser in the world. Recently, Google announced the pending rollout of another new feature designed to minimize the use of your CPU's resources. The coming update will evaluate the resource load requirements of web-based ads on every website you visit. If the...

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Microsoft Adds Lists To Their Teams Communication Platform

Microsoft Adds Lists To Their Teams Communication Platform

September 19, 2020BlogNo Comments »

One of the more common complaints people have about mobile devices is the fact that it's still harder than it should be to do certain kinds of work. Manipulating spreadsheets on a mobile device, for example, can be a lesson in frustration. If that's something you've experienced firsthand, and if you're a Microsoft 365 user (Microsoft Teams in particular), then...

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Latest Windows 10 Update Fixes SSD Defrag Issue

Latest Windows 10 Update Fixes SSD Defrag Issue

September 18, 2020BlogNo Comments »

Do you have a solid- state drive (SSD)? If so, you're probably aware that recent builds of Windows 10 have introduced an unexpected issue. It causes the automatic maintenance feature of the OS to kick in and defragment SSDs much more frequently than they should be, which greatly reduces their useful lives. The way the feature was supposed to work...

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Intel AMT Releases Security Update For Some Processors

Intel AMT Releases Security Update For Some Processors

September 17, 2020BlogNo Comments »

Recently, Intel released a very important update designed to address nine separate security flaws in their chipsets as part of their September 2020 Platform Update. Of the flaws addressed by this fix, one of them is a critical issue revolving around the company's Active Management Technology (AMT) and Intel Standard Manageability platforms. That's important because the AMT is used in...

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