SAGESPIDER BLOG
Security Breaches Create Pawns
As of this writing, there was yet another security breach of emails, passwords etc from Facebook as detailed the article on Breitbart News, How to Check if Your Personal Details Are Part of Facebook’s Massive Leak. The problem is that if you are NOT watching the news (and even if you are) you may not...
Is my computer running slow? Do I have a crypto miner?
If you computer starts to run slowly after visiting a website with a lot of ads, you might have picked up a sneaky Bitcoin miner script. A small piece of software installed on your computer without your knowlegde that uses your CPU power to mine for cryptocurrency mostly Bitcoin. i.e. some is making money off...
I like Mozilla Firefox but it isn’t immune to hackers; just as WordPress has it’s problems
Seems ‘Hackers spent at least a year spying on Mozilla to discover Firefox security holes – and exploit them’ as noted in The Register, online hardware, software and security news site. ‘Bugzilla infiltrated, private vulns slurped since at least 2014 Hackers have known about unpublicized and unpatched critical security holes in the Firefox web browser...
Are You Considering Windows 10?
You might want to think again! Seems they have revamped their security defaults and how they handle information. As usual in practice with new software or a new car, you want to let someone else works out the new kinks! I look at Windows 10 as I did the upgrade to Vista from XP –...
Have you considered a VPN?
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) which you can use to communicate over the web either by phone, tablet or computer allows you a ‘bit’ more privacy than not. Then again it too can be compromised. “VPNs are so insecure you might as well wear a KICK ME sign” – Brits test of 14 prominent privacy...