PC Security and Other Useful Information

If you let your Surface battery go dead, the Dock can’t charge it. You must use the original power brick. Apparently, this is Broken As Bad! Battery depleted Surface won’t charge using Surface Dock  

Fiserv Flaw Exposed Customer Data at Hundreds of Banks If your bank uses Fiserv, your info may be compromised.  If a bank is using Fiserv’s platform, it usually says so somewhere at the bottom of the bank’s home page. Another giveaway is that most of the bank sites using Fiserv display the same root domain name […]

Security Mailer V18 #34 Adobe released critical update for Photoshop CC Major update for Pale Moon browser Cisco Security Advisories Apache Struts 2 critical vulnerability patched Linux updates Microsoft updates revised, KB4293807 pulled and replaced Intel microcode updates released Security Advisory released General Security reviews last weeks vulnerabilities

Adobe Issues Emergency Patches for Critical Flaws in Photoshop CC This is an out-of-band update to patch critical flaws.

How to Take Screenshots in Windows 10 This article shows some different methods of getting a screen shot. Personally, I like Snag-It the best, bar none. Absolutely necessary if you need to do editing of the screen shots.

Security Mailer Volume 18 Number 33 Part 1 Adobe updates: Flash Player Acrobat & Reader Creative Cloud Experience Manager Cisco Security Advisories’ Linux Kernel updates Linux updates Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates, Revisions Advisories Office updates General Security reviews: final spec for TLS 1.3 How to stop Google tracking Yet another vulnerability revealed by Intel VMware […]

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Intuit Accelerates Cloud Strategy, Sells Data Center Just what I wanted… My tax info in AWS.. 🙁

Wrangling-with-the-Ghost-An-Inside-Story-of-Mitigating-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Vulnerabilities Thanks to Susan Bradley for posting this.

Patch Tuesday, August 2018 Edition