Passwords May Be Dead Soon If Microsoft Gets Its Way

Passwords May Be Dead Soon If Microsoft Gets Its Way

Karanbir Singh (a program manager at Microsoft) is on a mission: Kill the password. As he said in a recent blog post: “Nobody likes passwords.  They are inconvenient, insecure, and expensive.  In fact, we dislike them so much that we’ve been busy...
Now Is A Good Time To Upgrade To SSD Drives

Now Is A Good Time To Upgrade To SSD Drives

If you’ve been considering swapping out some of your old HDDs to SSDs, now is a great time to do so, thanks to the convergence of two factors. First is the fact that the manufacturers of SSDs have been  making strides in terms of increasing the capacity of...
Microsoft Is Issuing Surface Book 4 Replacements

Microsoft Is Issuing Surface Book 4 Replacements

Do you own a Surface Book 4?  If you do, you may have been unfortunate enough to get one that suffers from a peculiar screen flickering issue.  It’s not known exactly how many Surface Book 4’s have been affected by the issue, but thousands of...
More Bad News From The Equifax Breach

More Bad News From The Equifax Breach

The news just keeps getting worse for Equifax.  The company has already had to revise their estimates of how many people were impacted by last year’s breach more than once, and now, they’re having to revise their estimate yet again.  This latest...
New Vulnerability May Expose Encrypted Emails

New Vulnerability May Expose Encrypted Emails

Security researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have discovered a dangerous new email vulnerability called “Efail.”  Exploiting this new email vulnerability would allow hackers to decrypt emails encrypted with either PGP or S/MIME...