Original
Stucco Theme: This is the Writing on the Wall.
Table of
Contents |
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Page 1 |
Why I produce this electronic newsletter |
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March 03, 2024 |
The Number One Existential Question is Answered |
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Continuing |
NEW!
Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1945
NEWER!! YurData-R-Us
NEWEST!!!
A Republic If You Can Keep It |
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The Newest News |
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May 1, 2024 |
The Facts Behind the Change Healthcare Hack
Reveal Why We Are
Losing the Cyber War |
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March 17, 2024 |
The Congressional Problem With CCP
That Is, Its Confusion
Concerning Priorities |
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March 10, 2024 |
America's 21st Century Machiavellian Moment
Last Call for a Return To First Principles, End Section 230
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March 10, 2024 |
America's 21st Century Machiavellian Moment
A Call for a
Return To First Principles, Introduction |
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March 10, 2024 |
America's 21st Century Machiavellian Moment
A Call for a
Return To First Principles, Part 1 |
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March 10, 2024 |
America's 21st Century Machiavellian Moment
A Call for a
Return To First Principles, Part 2 |
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February 28, 2024 |
The Connectwise ScreenConnect Vulnerability Part 2
The Return
of the ALPHV/Blackcat Ransomware Gang |
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February 24, 2024 |
The Connectwise ScreenConnect Vulnerability &
The Return of the Lockbit Ransomware Gang |
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February 25, 2024 |
More Hidden Gems In Your Microsoft 365
Subscription
Introducing Microsoft Defender Identity Monitoring
Applications |
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February 20, 2024 |
Lockbit Ransomware Group Disrupted
At Least For Now |
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February 19, 2024 |
Microsoft Slays The AI Demons
At Least For Now |
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And In Other News |
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February 18, 2024 |
Uncle Sam
Says
Don't Be Indolent. Change That Password! |
February 18, 2024
Updated 2/19/2024 |
Why We Can't Have Nice Things
A Tale of Two Heists of Major Financial
Institutions |
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February 04, 2024 |
Human Depravity Is the Reason Why
We Can't Have Nice Things |
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January 28, 2024 |
Costs, Epilogue: Attacks on Water Plants? (Yawn)
DeepFake
Porn Pics of Taylor Swift? Now That's Entertainment!
Ah
Jeez... |
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January 27, 2024 |
The Cost of Doing Business, Pt. 3
Documenting the True Costs
of Ransomware |
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January 27, 2024 |
The Cost of Doing Business, Pt. 2
Maybe You Will Care When Your
Taps Go Dry Or Worse |
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January 24, 2024 |
The Cost of Doing Business, Pt.1
MOAB and the Extent of the
Problem |
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January 21, 2024 |
Telling the Whole Story
Some Needed Truth In Advertising
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January 21, 2024 |
Hacking Hits Home
Keenan and Associates Suffers a Breach |
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January 20, 2024 |
Computers In the Classroom
A Classic Case of the
Double Edged Sword |
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January 14, 2024 |
Want a Free Comprehensive Course of AI Fundamentals?
Well, IBM's Got
Your Ticket |
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January 14, 2024 |
Riddle Me This: When Is a Lie Not a Lie?
When the Lie Is a
Conspiracy Theory, Like the Dead Internet Theory. |
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January 13, 2024 |
An Always On But Idle Connection
Can Also Be the Devil's Workshop |
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January 13, 2024 |
It's Not the First Time Our Country or World Has Unraveled
But This Time, the
Unraveling Is Happening At Light Speed |
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November 11, 2023 |
Beware the Insidious Invite, Part 2;
Social Engineering 101 |
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November 10, 2023 |
Beware the Insidious Invite; Or
"Punchbowl[.]Ru" is not
"Punchbowl[.]Com" |
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November 04, 2023 |
Old Venerable MS Paint
Gets a New Makeover and Really Cool Features |
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October 29, 2023 |
Well, You Know Phishing, and Smishing, and Vishing
But Do You Know the Newest Hack of All? |
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October 22, 2023 |
India Busts Up Some Fake AV Alert Crooks
While the FBI Announces a
New Scam Sucking In Seniors |
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October 9, 2023 |
Infographics Are All the Rage, Pt. 3
Microsoft Delivers the
Facts for the Short Attention Span Set |
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October 8, 2023 |
October Is Not Only CyberSecurity Awareness Month
KnowBe4
Wants You to Know That October is also
Spooky Cyber Month |
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October 7, 2023 |
October 2023 Is the 20th Annual CyberSecurity Awareness (Yawn) Month
—
Gee, and I Didn't Get You Anything |
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September 27, 2023 |
Windows Version 23H2:
Copilot AI on the Taskbar, Well, OK |
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October 1, 2023 |
More Windows 11 22H2 Postscript — Post-Installation
Copilot?
What CoPilot? We Don't Need No Stinking Copilot! |
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October 1, 2023 |
Windows 11 Version 23H2, (Ahem, My Bad.
I mean 22H2):
Postscript — Post Installation
The Whole Enchilada Is
Still Two Tacos Short of a Combo Plate
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September 26, 2023 |
Microsoft Wants Your Words To Have
Some Sway
Introduction to Microsoft Sway, Pt. 3 |
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September 23, 2023 |
Microsoft Wants Your Words To Have Some Sway
Introduction to
Microsoft Sway, Part 2 |
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September 23, 2023 |
Microsoft Wants Your Words To Have Some Sway
Introduction to
Microsoft Sway, Part 1 |
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September 22, 2023 |
Windows Version 23H2: Will It Be, Ah
Jeez...
Or, Gee Whiz, This is Really Cool
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September 21, 2023 |
From Business Management to Party Management
Introduction To
Microsoft Forms |
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September 18, 2023 |
Time As Come Today: Deep Fakes On the Rise |
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September 17, 2023 |
The Word of the Day Is Provenance
An Important Thing to Know
About Browser Extensions |
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September 16, 2023 |
Amaze and Astound Your Friends and
Family
With These Easy Peasy Tips & Tricks to Try |
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September 10, 2023 |
Phishing Back in the News
The Push and Pull of Domain
Phishing |
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Updated September 05, 2023 |
And New Snipping Tool Settings |
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September 04, 2023 |
Microsoft PC Manager revisited
Make Your Security Easy Peasey |
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September 04, 2023 |
Open Outlook Links In Your Default Browser
Like Chrome And Not Edge
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August 29, 2023 |
The Battle of the Leviathans: Mark Zuckerberg vs Moms of Dead Kids
Another Tale of Two Advocacy Ads |
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August 29, 2023 |
The Big Boys & Girls and Us Little Guys All In the Crosshairs
Sim Swapping: A High Tech Crime by Low Tech Means |
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August 26, 2023 |
Having Fun With Fonts, Pt.3
Find That Favorite Fantastic Font
That You Really, Really Want |
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August 25, 2023 |
Having Fun With Fonts, Pt.2
Outlook Is More Than the Words You
Write |
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August 25, 2023 |
Having Fun With Fonts, Pt.1
What the Heck Is a Word Aptos? |
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August 24, 2023 |
Crooks Now Have Eyes In the Skies
The Hacking of Telescopes
Worldwide |
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August 23, 2023 |
First We Got A Bing. Now We Got A Bard.
Google Opens Up Its AI
to All |
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August 19, 2023 |
Trial Over Ink Extortion Is a Blot On
H.P.'s Otherwise Stained
Record |
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August 8, 2023 |
Just When You Think the Bovine Refuse Could Not Get Any More Thick,
Along Comes Worldcoin and Its Absurdly Comical Orb, Part 2 |
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August 8, 2023 |
Just When You Think the Bovine Refuse Could Not Get Any More Thick,
Along Comes Worldcoin and Its Absurdly Comical Orb |
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August 6, 2023 |
The Game May Have Changed:
But Compromised Servers are Still
Tried and True, Part 3 in a series |
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August 6, 2023 |
The Game Has Changed:
Fileless Malware and Hackers Living Off
the Land, Pt2 |
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July 30, 2023 |
The Game Has Changed:
Fileless Malware and Hackers Living Off the Land |
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July 29, 2023 |
The Game Has Changed:
So, So Must We |
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July 04, 2023 |
The Back Pages: Special Fourth of July Edition |
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July 11, 2023 |
Introducing Google Enhanced Safe Browsing
Well, Bless Their
Little Pea-Picking Hearts2 |
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July 01, 2023 |
Introducing Google My Ad Center
Well, Bless Their Little Pea-Picking
Hearts. |
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A New Continuing Series: |
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The Complete Series |
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July 23, 2023 |
The CLOP MOVEit Vulnerability:
Rite-Aid & The Eternal Zero Hour
Threat |
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July 18, 2023 |
A Growing Trend:
Data Breaches,
Hacking, and Ransomware Infecting the Courtroom |
July 12, 2023
July 16, 2023 |
Valiantly Trying to Save Western
Civilization,
One Attack At a Time,
Coda
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July 16, 2023 |
Valiantly Trying to Save Western
Civilization,
One Attack At a Time, Part
3.
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July 12, 2023 |
Valiantly Trying to Save Western
Civilization,
One Attack At a Time, Part 2.
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July 03, 2023 |
CISA Director, Jen Easterly, Valiantly Trying to
Save
Western
Civilization,
One Attack At a Time. |
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Special Features |
The Back Pages
Page 1 |
The Eight Beatitudes of the Digerati
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January 7, 2023 |
The BackPages: I want to share with you my Dark Visions
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March 13, 2023 |
Two Unrelated Events That Fed the Crash
Happened at the Same
Time |
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January 2023 |
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February - April 2023 |
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May 24, 2023 |
The Dispatcher Answers a Critic
in Three Parts
A Short Discourse on the Web Graphics
Tools, Techniques, and Intents,
Pt. 3 |
May 11, 2023 |
Short Discourse on My Philosophy of
Web Page and Website Design
In Classical Design Theory Less Is Always More, Pt. 1 |
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May 12, 2023 |
A Short Discourse on the Business of Website Hosting
In the
Business of Website Hosting Less Is Also More, Pt. 2 |
May 10, 2023 |
Introducing Cracker Jill
Sheer Brilliance In a Bag |
May 21, 2023 |
A review of the ways to be smarter online. |
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Earlier News |
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July 03, 2023 |
A Word on Smartphone Security from The Land Down Under,
By
Way of The NSA. |
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June 14 - 18, 2023 |
A Three Part Series:
AI In the Market Place:
, Pt. 1-3
The Bull Runs While The Bear Comes
Out of Hibernation (1)
The Consumer King and the
Great Cosmic Yawn (2)
Humpty Dumpty Teetering on the Wall
Street (3) |
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June 18, 2023 |
A New Look at Two Useful Windows apps
MS PC Manager & Task
Manager |
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June 15, 2023 |
So What In the Sam Hill Does
The Presidential Records Act of
1978 Actually Say? |
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June 5, 2023 |
AI In the Apps:
Microsoft's Designer & The Existential
Inference |
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June 4, 2023 |
AI In the Apps: Microsoft's Editor |
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June 16, 2023 |
Domain Poisoning:
More Old Wine in a New Cardboard Box |
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June 3 2023 |
The Regulating of AI, Pt. 3:
Observations From Abroad and
Conclusions for Here At Home |
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June 1, 2023 |
The Regulating of AI, Pt. 2:
The Fox Needs Help Exiting the
Henhouse |
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May 31, 2023 |
The
Regulating of AI, Pt.1:
Please Stop Me Before I Hallucinate Again |
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May 27, 2023 |
Get SyncToy Backup Utility Now! |
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May 24, 2023 |
Changing Computer Karma: But Old Demons Still Reign
A Review
of After Action Reports, Pt. 2 |
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May 23, 2023 |
Changing Computer Karma: But Old Demons Still Reign
A Review
of After Action Reports, Pt1. |
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May 20, 2023 |
Artificial Intelligence and The Return of FUD |
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May 21, 2023 |
Montana TikTok Ban is Undeniably...
Unconstitutional;
Unworkable; Unenforceable; and Just Plain Dumb |
May 13, 2023
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The Empire Steps Up
Secure By Design, Secure
By Default, Pt. 1 |
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The
Empire Steps Up
Secure By Design, Secure By Default, Pt.
2 |
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And Now Another Really Stupid Government IT Trick
The
Protecting Kids on Social Media Act |
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Special Continuing Yin and Yang Edition |
May 15, 2023 |
1. Get Windows Update Now
2. Windows
Notifications Are Exploding
3. Optional Updates |
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May 20, 2023 |
Artificial Intelligence and The Return of FUD |
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May 8, 2023 |
AI and Its Acolytes: Improving Life on Earth by Its Utter
Destruction
Artificial Intelligence and Our Rapidly Changing Economy
and Workforce, Parts 1 & 2 |
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May 10, 2023 |
It's Time to Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Learn The
Art of the Artificial Intelligence Prompt Now |
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May 8, 2023 |
New Windows Bugs and/or Windows Features
Annoying or Experience
Enriching Eye Candy and How To Turn It On or Off |
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April 18, 2023 |
Is It a Bug? Or Is It a New Feature? I report. You Decide?
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April 19, 2023 |
Microsoft's New Demi-God Mode
Introduction To Microsoft PC Manager
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April 4, 2023 |
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April 4, 2023 |
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March 26, 2023 |
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The
Yin and Yang of Life on the Internet |
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March 19, 2023 |
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Past Issues Archive |
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May 9, 2023 |
It's Only Simple If You Already Know How To Do It
Managing
Multiple Tabs in Google Chrome |
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April 4, 2023 |
Great Googly Moogly: Google's Major Performance Boost
With
Mammoth New Memory Management |
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April 3, 2023 |
They Want You to Update Your Drivers
But They Won't Tell You
How. But I Will Try. |
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March 26, 2023 |
The Hearings Congress Didn't Have
Why Don't They Care About
These Cyber Issues? |
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March 19, 2023 |
How to Block the AdBlocker Blockers
Welcome Back to the
Department of Redundancy Department, Again. |
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March 18, 2023 |
The
1,400,000,000,000 In Crypto Losses That Crashed the Economy
Opps! My Bad, 2 Trillion;
How about 4 Trillion? |
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March 13, 2023 |
Ban TikTok: or All IPs Within the
Scope Of 130.44.212.XXX? or
Stop being Stupid about IT.
Get Smart about MultiModal AI |
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March 12, 2023 |
The AI Blast Off:
Yellow Journalism In the Digital Age |
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March 12, 2023 |
Reduce Your Attack Surface:
Use Control Panel to Dump the
Junk Software |
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March 10, 2023 |
The Perils of the Preview Pane:
New Wine In an Old Bottle |
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March 6, 2023 |
The Metaphysics of AI: Understanding What the Thing is
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March 3, 2023 |
I Gotta Betta Bada Bing Bot;
But I Still Don't Get All the Bada Boom
Pt2 |
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February 28, 2023 |
I Got the Bada Bing — I Just Don't Get the Bada Boom; or
AI Is the
Accutrac of Our Day Pt1 |
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March 4, 2023 |
Go Update Office Yourself; And Get All of This Week's New Features |
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March 2, 2023 |
AI in The Marketplace:
Coming Soon: To You → At You
→ Maybe
Even For You |
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March 4, 2023 |
The Back Pages Bits & Bytes: Random Stories You Might Not
Care About,
And Would Probably Never Come Up in Polite Conversation
Anyway |
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February 26, 2023 |
At Supreme Court: Section 230 of The Communications Decency Act of 1996;
The AI Debacle Calls Out for Congress To Act |
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February 24, 2023 |
The BackPages, Pg. 2:
NSA Publishes Tip Sheet On How To Secure a Home Network
A Few Words to the Wise DIYs: A View From the Ground Up |
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February 25, 2023 |
Introducing AI Image Generation Application
—
DALL-E
The Complete Magical Mystery Tour
With a Stop in DadaLand.
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February 21, 2023 |
Senator Josh Hawley Wants to Protect You From Yourself
Three
Bills to Fight the Scourge of Social Media: Two Pending, Part 1 |
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February 21, 2023 |
Senator Josh Hawley Wants to Protect You From Yourself
Three
Bills to Fight the Scourge of Social Media: Two Pending, Part 2 |
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February 17, 2023 |
While We are Waiting for the Bada Boom, Bada Bing,
They Call
AI a Form of
Technofetishism;
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February 19, 2023 |
Uncle Sam Traces Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals to North Korea
And Creates a Very Good Website on the Topic
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February 19, 2023 |
Keeping Tabs On All the New Tabs The Windows Insider Program:
A Preview
of Coming Attractions
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February 11, 2023 |
Part 1: What is AI? Why is AI Such A Good Thing?
And How
Come I Have Such a Mean and Nasty Jones for AI? |
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February 11, 2023 |
AI
Part 2: Now, Here Comes the Bad Part
There's Always a Bad Part |
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February 12, 2023 |
Part 3: Merely Distasteful? Maybe Unattractive? Actually Kinda Ugly?; or
Is This Is Just One Fugly Mother, or What? |
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February 12, 2023 |
Stop the Whining. Stop the Finger Pointing,
Hey Congress, Help Solve
the Problems:
Repeal Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency
Act |
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January 28, 2023 |
Out Damn Search Highlights
Updated Jan 30, 2023
I guess they think you are a child |
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January 27, 2023 |
Put Your Paws on Your Mouse and
Put the Pause on Windows Update
Paused.
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January 25, 2023 |
Bits and Bytes: Random Stuff You May or May Not Care About
It's why it's called The Back Pages |
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January 20, 2023 |
The Empire State Strikes Back
Silly Government Cyber Security
Tricks: Part 2 |
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January 18, 2023 |
Legislatures Just Plain Don't Get It:
Two Silly Responses to
Serious Problems: Part 1: Banning TikTok |
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January 14, 2023 |
The Changing Face of Malware
and a Modest Proposal:
Create Your Own Primer for the Study
of Cyber Security |
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January 10, 2023 |
Vee's Library of ChromeOS Cheatsheets. |
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January 1, 2023 |
The First Annual (and possibly only) Dispatches From the Front, 2022 Year
in Review: Whoop-Di-Do
Hey. If CNN Can Do This, Then So Can I |
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November 28, 2022 |
The Coming Tech Crash:
A 40 Year View From the Ground Up |
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December 27, 2022 |
It's Da Tale of Two Dames Whose Names Begin With the Letter D,
or: New Views on Windows 11
Zoom — Whoop Di Do |
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December 3, 2022 |
Facts From The Stats, or:
One Simple Reason It's All Going Down the Tubes |
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November 05, 2022 |
It's Why It's Called the Dispatches From the Front:
Or a BEC Campaign
Coming Soon To A Small Business Near You
(or To You) |
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November 05, 2022 |
How Could People Be So Stupid In 2022;
Or, A Newbie Goes Online Every
Minute (fresh meat) |
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November 06, 2022 |
How To Empower Yourself and Never Be Duped Again
Read All Outlook Email In Text Only |
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November 06, 2022 |
Two Mighty Powerful Free Tools on the Web That Can Say Where You Are
Headed:
Email Verification and WhoIs Domain Name Lookup |
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October 24, 2022 |
Another Very Useful Free Tool from Microsoft:
The Standalone Windows
Malicious Software Removal Tool |
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October 1, 2022 |
Windows 11 2022H2. With Update October 06, 2022
The Good, The Bad, and The Aw
Jeez |
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October 5, 2022 |
Sorry Pooky. But Ain't No One on the Web Gonna Fix Your Pooter;
or
How to Avoid Falling Into the Endless Depths of Hell that Is the Fake AV
Alert |
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October 9, 2022 |
Temporary Files Deletion in Windows 11 2022h2
A Major
Improvement |
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September 20, 2022 |
Yet Another Another Cool Tool From Microsoft PowerToys.
Introducing the Mighty Useful (if you are web designer) Screen Ruler
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September 15, 2022 |
Windows 11 2022H2. With Update October 06, 2022
The Good, The Bad, and The Aw
Jeez |
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October 5, 2022 |
Sorry Pooky. But Ain't No One on the Web Gonna Fix Your Pooter;
or
How to Avoid Falling Into the Endless Depths of Hell that Is the Fake AV
Alert |
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October 9, 2022 |
Temporary Files Deletion in Windows 11 2022h2
A Major
Improvement |
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September 20, 2022 |
Yet Another Another Cool Tool From Microsoft PowerToys.
Introducing the Mighty Useful (if you are web designer) Screen Ruler
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September 15, 2022 |
Another Cool Tool From Microsoft PowerToys.
Introducing the
Mighty Useful Text Extractor |
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August 14, 2022 |
Small Ball in the Global Cyberware; Or,
They Got Bugs. We
Got Bugs. All God's Chillun Got Bugs
Part 1 |
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August 1, 2022 |
Get To Know the Windows Snippet Tool. |
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August 1, 2022 |
Place Commonly Used Icons on the Start Button. |
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July 27, 2022 |
The Best Time To Patch Is Always Now |
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July 30, 2022 |
Cobalt Strike: The Warning Sign of Worse Things Yet To Come
And
Everything That We've Been Talking About |
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July 31, 2022 |
Verify Your Windows Defender Version Number |
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July 31, 2022 |
Chips Act PLUS Passes with Plenty of Pork to Spare |
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July 29, 2022 |
Welcome to the Digital Post Office: Your Tax Dollars at Work |
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July 19, 2022 |
Water, Water, Everywhere
So Why Does No one Seem to Care |
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July 19, 2022 |
Feds Exorcize the H0lyGh0st
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July 23, 2022 |
Microsoft Turns Macros Off Back On
&
Another Reason to Switch To Windows 11
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July 24, 2022 |
Will US Manufacturing Be In the CHIPS? |
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July 14, 2022 |
Are Bogus Browser Extensions Bumming You Out, Bubala?
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July 13, 2022 |
Superfetch may not be so super after all
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July 12, 2022 |
Something truly wonderful on the web:
The Atlantic Monthly
Digital Archives
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July 14, 2022 |
Just when you think things couldn't get any worse...
And
then they don't. |
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July 8, 2022 |
Supply Chains Attacks on Healthcare |
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July 7, 2022 |
Word Malware:
UPDATED 7/08/2022
/ 7/11/2022 |
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July 7, 2022 |
Anatomy of a Web Address |
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July 8, 2022 |
The
Stats Are Back! |
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June 29, 2022 |
The Smartphone is now the attack surface we always knew it would
become |
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June 29, 2022 |
OT: ICEFALL: Coming soon to a water treatment plant near you. |
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June 29, 2022 |
On or Off? Are you kidding? |
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June 22, 2022 |
The Next Looming Supply Chain Crisis, Part Deux (edit 6/24) |
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June 22, 2022 |
Quantum Computing and The Coming End of Passwords |
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June 22, 2022 |
Introducing Microsoft Defender for Your Smartphone:
Updated 6/23/2022 |
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June 23, 2022 |
Remove Search highlights graphic from Windows 10 Searchbar |
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June 23, 2022 |
The Back Pages Pg. 2
Stupid is Back Doing What Stupid Does
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May 1, 2022 |
Open Source: The Next Looming Supply Chain Crisis |
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May 1, 2022 |
Phishing, and Smishing, and Vishing, Oh FUD |
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May 4, 2022 |
I Suggest that You Turn Off Suggestions If They Bother You
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April 24, 2022 |
The Global Malware Free for All |
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April 24, 2022 |
The End of Patch Tuesday? |
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April 25, 2022 |
Snap Your Screens to Attention With Snapview |
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April 14, 2022 |
What's a SCADA? Or, The First Salvo in the Cyberwar? |
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Now By Popular Demand: A Special Printing Edition |
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April 16, 2022 |
Hello, My Name is Johnny Cache.
Or, how to clear the queue. |
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April 16, 2022 |
I know, you just got the dang thang to work again.
And now it only spits double sided printing. Ah jeez...
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Now BACK By Popular Demand: A Special Windows Update Edition |
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Feb., 06, 2022 |
How to Run Windows Update Manually |
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Feb., 06, 2022 |
How to Update Adobe Acrobat & Google Chrome Manually
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April 11, 2022 |
They're B-A-A-C-K!! (4
Big Topics in 1 easy to navigate webpage.) |
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April 11, 2022 |
The Numbers Tell The Tale. And it's something to tell.
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April 3, 2022 |
How Capitalism Destroyed Email and Made It Better,
Or Get
Your Domain Names Right Here, Right Now. Red Hot — Fresh Off the Server
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April 3, 2022 |
Shut That !@#%^)*& "Finish Setting Up Windows Screen" Off! |
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Special Spring Cleaning Edition |
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April 3, 2022 |
FLUSH THAT DNS & GET OUT THE CRAP CORRECTED
AND UPDATED APRIL 4, 2022 |
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April 3, 2022 |
CLEAR THE BROWSER CACHE OUT |
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April 3, 2022 |
CLEAN UP DRIVE C: GET MORE CRAP OUT |
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April 3, 2022 |
The Back Pages:
Two Divergent Paths
1. What the Web Stats reveal.
2.
The Fat Lady is warming up and swans are dropping like flies.
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March 27, 2022 |
The Return of FUD: (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) |
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March 27, 2022 |
Windows Defender's Secret (I think) Weapon: The Offline Scan |
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March 27, 2022 |
Coping and Pasting Images from the Web: Introduction to MS
Paint. |
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March 17, 2022 |
From Russia Sans Love: Destructive Wiper Malware & Oh. And Iran wants to eat your UEFI |
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March 13, 2022 |
See What Windows Defender Found During Scanning: Windows Defender
Protection History |
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March 13, 2022 |
How To Safely Copy and Paste Text From a Webpage: Introduction to Notepad |
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March 13, 2022 |
"Air Gapped." A Term Now Useful in New and Meaningful Ways.
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February 13, 2022 |
And Now Never Before Seen Within Windows Your Microsoft Account. |
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February 13, 2022 |
Driver, Driver? Who has the Driver? Eh, Probably Intel. |
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February 13, 2022 |
Intel Installer, The Sequel: Putting Task Manager to the Task |
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February 13, 2022 |
More fun with the Fabulous, Fantastic and Free Microsoft Photos App. |
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February 13, 2022 |
The Eight Beatitudes of the Digerati |
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February 8, 2022 |
SPECIAL UPDATE EDITION: Update Adobe Acrobat & Google Chrome |
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February 6, 2022 |
Go Update Windows Yourself! |
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February 6, 2022 |
PowerToys In the xHairs |
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February 6, 2022 |
An Essay on Useful Idiots and Communist Sympathizers |
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January 25, 2022 |
Shifting Alliances Always a Harbinger of Global War |
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January 25, 2022 |
The Other Branches of Government Chime In. God Save Us All |
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January 25, 2022 |
Time to Tame OneDrive |
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January 25, 2022 |
Show Some Spirit. DDoS Your School. |
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January 11, 2022 |
Another year, another day, another data breach: Or, Did LastPass
Get Gassed? |
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January 11, 2022 |
Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Have I Been Pwnd? |
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January 11, 2022 |
Log4j Update: It Ain't Over 'Till It's Over. And It Ain't Over.
Sound Familiar? |
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January 11, 2022 |
PowerToys: Useful Add-ons from Microsoft
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January 11, 2022 |
Commentary: Product the do is the opposite of what the Product
was designed to do. |
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December 26, 2021 |
The Zeitgeist of Our Age: A Tale of Two Tech Ads |
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December 26, 2021 |
Focus Assist: Microsoft Wants To Help You With Your ADD |
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December 26, 2021 |
The IoT Mess: Or, What Does a Hacker Want With My Cable Box,
Anyway? |
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December 25, 2021 |
Topic 1:
From The Dept of LMAO Department: Putin Bans The Onion Router
(TOR) |
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December 22, 2021 |
Log4j. Pt.3. Log4j. The Hack That Keeps On Hacking
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December 21, 2021 |
Log4j. Pt.2. Mars is safe (for now). Don't know about Earth.
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December 12, 2021 |
EXTRA!:
Log4j. Or, Why on Earth is Java on Mars? |
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December 06, 2021 |
It's Time to Patch the Firmware of Your Netgear Networked Device. |
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December 06, 2021 |
The World Is Recognizing the Threats Posed by IoT (Internet of
Things) Devices. |
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December 06, 2021 |
A Deeper Look Into the Windows 11 Taskbar. |
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December 12, 2021 |
EXTRA!:
Log4j. Or, Why on Earth is Java on Mars? |
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December 06, 2021 |
It's Time to Patch the Firmware of Your Netgear Networked Device. |
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December 06, 2021 |
The World Is Recognizing the Threats Posed by IoT (Internet of
Things) Devices. |
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December 06, 2021 |
A Deeper Look Into the Windows 11 Taskbar.
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November 27, 2021 |
Law Enforcement Bags a Couple of Turkeys Part 1 |
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November 27, 2021 |
Law Enforcement Bags a Couple of Turkeys Part 2 |
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November 27, 2021 |
Windows Wrinkle No 1 Ironed Out: The Case of the Missing Icons |
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November 27, 2021 |
The Case of the Missing Toolbars, Part 1, Office |
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November 27, 2021 |
The Case of the Missing Toolbars, Part 2, Windows File Manager |
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November 27, 2021 |
Things I Am Thankful For |
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November 7, 2021 |
A Deeper Look into Windows 11 File Explorer |
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November 7, 2021 |
A Deeper Look into Windows 11 Start Menu |
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November 7, 2021 |
Control Your SmartPhone Cookies |
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November 7, 2021 |
Commentary on Doomsday software reports |
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28, 2021 |
RIP Nicko Silar Born: July 17, 2019 — Died April 16, 2020. Cause of Death:
Ransomware |
| October
28, 2021 |
Innovations in Ransomware |
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October 28, 2021 |
One Week with Windows 11 |
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October 28, 2021 |
Commentary on IT Security Advertising |
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