HP's crazy cheap Black Friday laptop deal is going fast [Update: Still live] By Paul Wagenseil HP is offering up to $850 off its Pavilion 15z Touch AMD Ryzen laptop with integrated Radeon Vega graphics.
Update your Nvidia GPU software now: Here's why By Paul Wagenseil Nvidia pushed out patches to its GPU drivers and GeForce Experience software to fix a dozen security flaws.
Office for Mac's Most Secure Setting Increases Risk of Attack By Paul Wagenseil Merging two ancient file formats can sneak malicious macros past Microsoft Office for Mac's toughest security.
MacOS High Sierra Already Hacked: Here's What to Do By Paul Wagenseil UPDATED with response from Apple.Apple's new macOS 10.13 High Sierra is only a day old, and it's already been hacked.A rogue application or other service running on a Mac can easily break into Apple's...
Many Macs Can Be Hacked by Firmware Attacks By Paul Wagenseil Thousands of Macs around the world may be vulnerable to devastating firmware attacks that would be nearly impossible to detect or stop, researchers from Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Duo Security disclose...
Why You Really Should Put Tape Over Your Webcam By Paul Wagenseil FBI Director James Comey recently said that everyone should put opaque tape over their computer webcams to protect their privacy. That sounds terribly simplistic, but Comey is right. There are plenty ...
Meltdown and Spectre: How to Protect Your PC, Mac and Phone By Paul Wagenseil The three big bugs in Intel, AMD and ARM chips disclosed last Wednesday (Jan. 3) are pretty scary, as they could let malware or other intruders steal data from the core of the operating system (for In...
Still Using Internet Explorer? Patch Windows Now By Paul Wagenseil Microsoft quietly pushed out an out-of-band (read: emergency) update to Internet Explorer today to thwart attacks that could let malicious websites install malware on Windows PCs."An attacker could ho...
HP Flaw Lets Hackers Hijack Your PC: What to Do By Paul Wagenseil Got an HP laptop or desktop? You'll want to make sure it has the latest HP software patches. That's because there's a serious flaw in older versions of Touchpoint Analytics, aka HP Device Health ...
Intel CPUs Have Serious Security Flaws: What You Should Know By Paul Wagenseil Some very serious flaws have been found in millions of computers using Intel chipsets — but we don't yet know whether consumer machines are affected.The flaws have to do with the Intel Management En...
FCC, Carriers to Create Database of Stolen Cellphones By Paul Wagenseil Responding to growing political and police pressure, America's Big Four wireless carriers have agreed to create a national database of stolen cellphones.The database would ensure that phones reported ...
Apple Keeps Malware Info from Antivirus Firms: Researcher By Paul Wagenseil Is Apple keeping crucial information about malware attacks hidden from antivirus firms? One prominent security researcher thinks it might be.Patrick Wardle, about whose discoveries we've written many ...
Scary New Intel Flaw Could Slow Down the Internet By Paul Wagenseil In a masterpiece of coordinated disclosure, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat and a group of academic researchers yesterday (Aug. 14) simultaneously notified the world of three more serious Intel CPU flaws th...
Did Your Firefox Add-Ons Break? Here's How to Fix Them By Paul Wagenseil If you used Mozilla Firefox over the weekend, you may have noticed that some of your add-ons and extensions stopped working. Fortunately, the problem has now been fixed, and if your browser doesn't up...
Firewalls, Software Patches Block Almost All PC Infections By Paul Wagenseil Two recent studies confirm what many security experts already know: Ninety-nine percent of Windows-based malware attacks can be stopped by the simple steps of turning on firewalls and applying routine...
Mac Malware Reaches New Highs, Report Finds By Paul Wagenseil More Mac malware has been seen in 2017 than in any year beforehand, a new report from information-security firm Malwarebytes says, and one of the company's security experts told us that Apple's curre...
KRACK Attack Hacks All Wi-Fi Networks: What to Do By Paul Wagenseil A severe flaw in the encryption protocols used by nearly all modern Wi-Fi networks could let attackers hijack encrypted traffic, steal passwords and even inject malware into smartphones and laptops.Cr...
Google to Label Millions of Sites as Not Secure By Paul Wagenseil In an effort to warn users of online dangers, Google's Chrome browser will soon label standard HTTP-based websites that ask for passwords or credit-card numbers with an "i" for "insecure" right in the...
Killer Deal: $220 Off iPad Pro 12.9-inch Tablet By Paul Wagenseil The best tablet for power users is undoubtedly Apple's 12.9-inch iPad Pro. It packs unrivaled processing power, an epic 13-hour battery and one of the most immersive tablet screens we've seen. Unfortu...
Macs Being Attacked by Windows Malware By Paul Wagenseil Look out, Mac users! Your machines are under attack -- from Windows malware.Researchers from Trend Micro yesterday (Feb. 11) said in a blog posting that they'd found an active strain of Mac malware th...
Zombie Flaw Hits Microsoft Office Users: Protect Yourself Now By Paul Wagenseil Sometimes what should be dead never truly dies. An ancient vulnerability in Microsoft Office, patched in November 2017, is still being successfully used to attack Windows systems that have never been ...
How Cortana Helps the Bad Guys Hack Your PC By Paul Wagenseil LAS VEGAS — At least five major security flaws involving Microsoft's Cortana personal-assistant software have been discovered in the past few months, Israeli security researchers told the Black Hat se...
Intel Vows Meltdown, Spectre Hardware Fixes This Year By Paul Wagenseil Intel will put hardware fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws on the next generation of its chips, CEO Brian Krzanich said in an Intel blog posting yesterday (March 15)."We have redesigned...
Why Buy a Laptop in a Neighborhood Store? Review By Paul Wagenseil $0 There are plenty of important reasons why you should make a local store part of your laptop shopping process.
Google Docs Phishing Scam: What You Need to Know By Paul Wagenseil A widespread phishing scam involving Google Docs made its way across the internet today (May 3), with multiple Twitter users and at least two Reddit threads documenting spam messages coming from "hhh...
