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  • Microsoft Has a New Trick for Keeping Your Password Safe

    Microsoft Has a New Trick for Keeping Your Password Safe

    Jake Peterson

    Your PC’s password is not something to be shared lightly. It’s the keys to your kingdom: From work, to social media, to banking, your whole world is likely accessible from your Windows machine. Consequently, Microsoft is begging us to not be idiots who will hand our passwords over to anyone who asks. But they know…

  • How to Avoid the Abundance of Malware in Minecraft

    How to Avoid the Abundance of Malware in Minecraft

    Jake Peterson

    Minecraft is addicting. Minecraft is popular. That combination means there are a lot of us playing the game for hours on end every single day. While that’s good for the Minecraft community at large, it’s also good for hackers. They don’t see millions of Minecraft players: They see millions of targets for malware.

  • DuckDuckGo Can Now Block Your Emails From Being Tracked

    DuckDuckGo Can Now Block Your Emails From Being Tracked

    Jake Peterson

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    When you open an email, there’s no obvious indication the sender will know. It’s not like Facebook Messenger, which sends an overt read receipt any time you open a message. However, the sender can include a small, pixel-sized image in the email, which identifies when we open it. In turn, it tells the sender (narc).…