Computer Safety & News

Microsoft has announced launch of preview version for Office 2016 http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/16/8223413/microsoft-office-2016-skype-for-business-preview Microsoft is improving Outlook 2016 search, storage footprint, and email delivery performance, alongside some improvements to image insertion in Word 2016 and Excel 2016. While Microsoft has previously added new ways to extend Office for developers, the software maker says it’s not touching add-ins […]

This USB Flash Drive proof of concept experiment highlights a special re-engineering process that could permanently damage the BIOS, motherboard, and other circuitry of the system. It is designed to store electricity until a maximum harmful amount is collected and then surge it back into the computer to fry componenets. If this were physically mailed […]

Critical security updates to Microsoft Windows, Office, IE, and other products became available on Patch Tuesday and users should promptly update for the best levels of protection against new threats https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Microsoft+March+Patch+Tuesday/19445/ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS15-MAR