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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery
Desktop Jan 2, 2024
Who doesnât love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…
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GOM Mix Maxâs Big Launch
Video Dec 8, 2021
GOM & Company is releasing its newest video editing software, GOM Mix Max, with a big launch celebration. Focused on balancing high-quality and plentiful features, GOM Mix Max will be a powerful tool for new editors and veterans alike. Users who sign up now can get GOM Mix Max for free for…
Chrome 53 Release: Squashes Bugs, Better Battery Life, Kills Flash (Some More)
InternetSoftware Reviews September 6, 2016
Chrome 53 has been released for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, but are there any real changes. The latest version of Chrome fixed over 30 security issues present in the previous release, made more inroads in Googleâs fight against Flash, and takes steps to improve battery life for... Read more
Apple has sent an email to its developers detailing some changes that are about to happen to in the App Store… …And if any of the web chatter Iâve seen over the last few hours is anything to go by, the news seems to have met with almost universal... Read more
The next Windows 10 update looks like it might be getting a new ânight modeâ and itâs probably about time. As anyone whoâs ever used any versions of Windows from the current no 10 version all the way back to the early 90s and Windows 3.1, the colour of... Read more
Earlier this week, Kim Dotcom, the extravagantly controversial billionaire internet entrepreneur, made legal history by winning a legal battle to live-stream his extradition hearing in New Zealand. Unfortunately for anyone watching however, Mr Dotcom’s hearing, has so far been as interesting as watching paint dry on a rainy day... Read more
The popular cloud storage firm DropBox has been hacked and the details of 68 million of its users’ emails and login passwords have been dumped onto the internet for the whole world to see. The hack, which took place in 2012âŠwait a minute, 2012? Let me just check that.... Read more
Facebook’s hope that it could relax the privacy policy of WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app, without kicking up a fuss, hasn’t worked, and has caused a worldwide backlash. When Facebook bought out WhatsApp for $19 billion back in 2014, the encrypted messaging appâs CEO Jan Koum said,... Read more
Asia Business Worst For Cybersecurity Globally
News August 29, 2016
According to a report by US security company Mandiant, Asian businesses are the most poorly defended in the world against cybersecurity attacks. The yearlong study identified the fact that cybersecurity breaches, on average took almost three times as long to be discovered compared to the global average. While businesses... Read more
Russian âPizza Hackerâ Found Guilty In US Court
News August 26, 2016
Roman Seleznev, the son of a prominent Russian politician, and fabled âPizza Hacker,â has been convicted in a US court of hacking into U.S. businesses, mainly in the Washington area, to steal credit card information in an international online theft scheme that netted him millions of dollars before he... Read more
For the majority of individuals and businesses worldwide, Microsoft Excel is the go to spreadsheet software, and everyone from students to trillion dollar enterprises use the software every day. But now, Microsoft Officeâs spreadsheet package is being blamed for errors in academic papers by scientists. In fact, according to... Read more
Ashley Madison Security Investigation: âUnacceptable shortcomingsâ Report Finds
News August 23, 2016
Privacy watchdog investigating the now infamous Ashley Madison data hack of July 2015 reports that the website used inadequate security systems and conned users into thinking it was more secure than it actually was. The report released this week stated that Avid Life Media, the Canadian based owners of... Read more
Microsoftâs big first anniversary update (the biggest update since it launched last year) for its flagship OS, Windows 10, has come under for fire for causing certain types of webcams to freeze and be unusable. The problem seems to reside in the way that Microsoft have made changes to the... Read more
The news site Gawker.com will shut down next week, just days after its parent company was purchased by Univision. Gawker.com will not continue to operate under its new owners, bringing a sudden and sad ending to one of the most controversial and contentious digital media websites of modern times.... Read more
Cisco Systems Inc has announced it will lay-off around 5,500 employees over the next 12 months; a large proportion of the network equipment maker’s global workforce. Earlier credible reports had indicated that up to around 20%, or 14,400, jobs were to go, inciting controversy that the company may have... Read more
The trial of a Russian man accused of orchestrating a hacking scheme that targeted US pizza restaurants began this week in the USA. Prosecutors allege that Seleznev was the master hacker behind $170 million worth of fraudulent purchases, that mostly took place at targeted pizza restaurants in the USA.... Read more
Stolen NSA Files Put Up for Auction By Hackers
News August 16, 2016
A hacker collective known as the Shadow Brokers are holding a Bitcoin auction to ransom off a collection of malware files stolen from the US National Security Agency. The hackers say they will give the malicious files to the highest bidder, whoever they may be. According to experts, the... Read more
China Launches Unhackable Quantum Satellite
News August 15, 2016
In a remote section of the Gobi Desert, China launched the world’s first quantum satellite early on Tuesday morning, and in doing so may have just made the future hacking of communication networks almost impossible. Chinese state media reported the official launch as technological breakthrough seeking to harness the... Read more
Cloud Software Will Make Up 25% Of All Sold Software By 2020
News August 12, 2016
The reality of having Cloud Software becoming the major source of sold software may no longer be up in the clouds. According to IDC, a quarter of all software sales by the year 2020 will be made on Cloud based services, seeing revenue for this sector more than double... Read more
AdBlock Plus: Facebook ad block bypassing is âanti user.’
InternetNewsSocial Media August 11, 2016
AdBlock Plus has reacted to the news that Facebook is to prevent ad blocking software from working on the desktop version of its social media site by labelling Facebook as âanti-user.â We already published a story here this week about Facebookâs intentions to prevent adblockers from working on PCs... Read more