computer security
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How To Instantly Fry A Motherboard
The USB Killer is infamous (but ingenious). Plug it in, and within seconds your computer is dead, motherboard fried thanks to a high voltage dose of electricity, along with any other nearby components. This video shows you how it works, but the takeaway is clear: Never connect random USB devices to your computer.
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Info From 15 Million Breached Kickstarter And Bitly Accounts Is Now Publicly Available
Today I got two friendly alerts from Have I Been Pwned, a free service that tracks data breaches and tells you if your info was exposed. It told me that my old passwords for Kickstarter and Bitly, breached in 2014, were now publicly available (though encrypted) online.
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The Ransomware Attack Isn’t Over; Here’s How To Protect Yourself
If your computer’s running on Microsoft Windows, you need to take these steps — right away.
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RansomFree Proactively Protects Your Computer Against Ransomware Attacks
Windows: RansomFree is a new tool that promises to stop ransomware attacks before they can get busy encrypting all of your data. Instead of watching specific processes or trying to use signatures to identify ransomware, it observes the behaviour of running processes instead, warning you when something’s up.