Computer Safety & News

Parental controls are important for families & Amazon has designed the Echo Dot Kids Edition to better ensure appropriate content as PC Magazines describes in detailed review. Still even this safer form of technology requires parental supervision & monitoring as a best practice. https://www.pcmag.com/news/360646/amazon-made-a-kid-friendly-echo-dot Amazon wants everyone using Alexa, including kids. With that in mind, […]

The new 2018 version of Google Gmail improves features and security as shared in this detailed review by PC Magazine https://www.pcmag.com/news/360579/google-is-giving-gmail-a-makeover The Gmail interface is comfortably familiar. Unless you’ve started using the more simplified, predictive Inbox app, Google’s ubiquitous email client has stayed more or less the same for quite a while.  Today, however, Google […]

Apple has released security updates for Safari macOS and iOS as shared by SANS ISC https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Apple+Patches+iOS+Safari+and+MacOS/23587/ Apple today released updated for Safari, macOS and iOS. The patches fix 4 different vulnerabilities. The most severe of the vulnerabilities affect WebKit. These vulnerablities could be exploited to execute arbitrary code if a user visits a malicous site.  […]