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Commodore 64

January 16, 2020 Greg Swiecicki

Personal computers in the 1980s no longer occupied the entire room, and were successfully housed on the desk. One of the most popular PCs at the time was the Commodore 64, which debuted on the market in 1982 and cost $ 595. A small, beige central machine was attached to the TV. The computer already offered basic office software and you could play games on it. The processor clock frequency was 1 MHz. In addition, 64 KB of RAM and an external 5.25-inch floppy drive for the Commodore 1541 version, which could hold up to 170 KB of data.

Microsoft and NSA say a security bug affects millions of Windows 10 computers

January 14, 2020 Greg Swiecicki

Microsoft has released a security patch regarding a vulnerability that affects hundreds of millions of computers in Windows 10.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/14/microsoft-critical-certificates-bug/

China-linked APT40 group hides behind 13 front companies

January 14, 2020 Greg Swiecicki

An anonymous Intrusion Truth security researchers group has discovered that a cyber-espionage group associated with China uses 13 cover companies. They probably operate on the island of Hainan.

https://go.newsfusion.com//security/item/1575624

Edge browser

January 14, 2020 Greg Swiecicki

January 15, the standard Edge browser will stop functioning. The message is directed most to individual users, businesses will be able to choose whether they want to switch to a new browser or stay with the old Edge. Microsoft announced in November, subsequent versions of Egde will use a different Google rendering mechanism. Last week, the document “Blocker Toolkit to disable automatic delivery of Microsoft Edge” reported that, unlike individual business users, they have the right to choose whether to opt out of upgrades and stay with the standard Edge. Microsoft in that document states that Edge browsers installed on computers with Windows 10 Home and Pro version 1803 will be automatically updated in Chromium. The appearance of the new logo will be a sign of change.

Making customer privacy a priority

January 14, 2020 Greg Swiecicki

A rational and consistent approach to privacy offers benefits and peace for large and small businesses. The most important thing is to stick to certain rules that significantly facilitate the privacy and protection of company data.

https://www.techradar.com/news/making-customer-privacy-a-priority

Zig Ziglar

January 13, 2020 Greg Swiecicki

Snake alert! This ransomware is not a game…

January 13, 2020 Greg Swiecicki

The ransomware encodes files and adds an unusual extension for highlighting. The Snake software adds a randomly selected string and thus makes it difficult to recognize by name.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/13/snake-alert-this-ransomware-is-not-a-game/

Personal data of millions of Americans exposed from PC in China

January 13, 2020 Greg Swiecicki

A hacker in a white hat, using a Twitter handle, located a database that has confidential information and data from a huge number of Americans. The database was located on a computer in China. CheckPeople takes security issues very seriously, recently announced that they will investigate the matter.

https://www.hackread.com/personal-data-millions-americans-exposed-china-pc/

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

January 11, 2020 Greg Swiecicki

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (born 1646, died 1716) is considered the initiator of computer science, the innovator of differential and integral calculus. His interests were machines and clocks. His work was to build one of the first calculating machines in 1964, which used the zero-one method of writing numbers. His work has survived to this day, even in libraries to this day, use the classic numerical catalogs. These catalogs are the prototype of today’s databases.

Cyber threats that use social engineering

January 10, 2020 Greg Swiecicki

The attackers know our nature and our pleasure from connections and trust in establishing social contacts. This is the most effective weapon for cybercriminals using social engineering as an attack vector, and in particular it is very difficult to combat.

https://www.techradar.com/news/cyber-threats-that-use-social-engineering