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Deepfake Safety: Five Things You Can Do Today

Best Software Oct 7, 2025

The generation of images, videos, and voices through artificial intelligence is evolving at a pace that demands we establish clear criteria and good habits to defend ourselves from the dangers of abusing these technologies. Deepfakes are already part of our everyday online life, so it is a very good idea…

Top Online Scams to Be Aware of in 2025

Antivirus Jul 31, 2025

The internet is undoubtedly full of great content, hobbies, information, offers, products, and people, but there’s also a darker side to it. We might not realise it, but every day we’re exposed to threats and scams as we navigate the online world. Curiosity and trust can be exploited to lure…

Meet the new features for Avast Free AV and Avast Premium Security

Antivirus Jun 25, 2025

With millions of active users worldwide, Avast stands as a benchmark in cybersecurity. Why? Because of the quality of its solutions, the reach of its tools and because it is a platform in continuous evolution. A platform that today, once again, places our security at the forefront by reinforcing every…

LastPass Gets Long-Awaited Update

News Productivity Software Reviews February 9, 2016

In a world rife with hacking events, cybercrime, and record-setting numbers of data breaches, it falls to tech users to be as proactive as they can about guarding their content. All too often, the user names and passwords that protect our accounts are the gold standard in identity theft-related... Read more

TaxSlayer Software Developers Reveal Data Breach

Development News February 8, 2016

As if citizens didn’t have enough to worry about during the tax filing season, yet another data breach has claimed the identities of nearly 9,000 people. TaxSlayer announced a January 13th data breach, discovered during a routine security check, that released the personal identifiable information of many of its... Read more

“Safe” Browsing Just Got Safer

Internet News February 5, 2016

Despite decades of widespread existence (and even more years of basically military-only use before that), the internet is still a veritable Wild West playground. The unfortunate fact is that a lot of the issues that come up for users stem from a segment of the online population who doesn’t... Read more

Amazon Kindles To Get An Update

Mobile News February 4, 2016

When the Kindle e-reader hit the shelves, it took the market by storm. It wasn’t the first digital device for reading ebooks, but it was the first one to come with a user-friendly download process and a full library of books to back it up (it was no fun... Read more

NSA Created “Backdoor” That Hackers Exploited

News February 3, 2016

What do you do when your efforts to catch a bad guy only result in helping him do his evil deeds? That may be the case in what is arguably one of the most ludicrous possible scenarios to come out of software security news in a long, long time.... Read more

New Software Keeps The Ballot Box Honest

News February 2, 2016

No government issue in global history has possibly been as hotly contested as elections, and more than a little fraud has happened at the ballot box. Governments around the world have tried a variety of measures, from armed soldiers at the polling places to voting by smartphone app, to... Read more

Can iPad Beat The Chromebook In Classrooms?

Mobile News February 1, 2016

There’s some big news out there today in educational software, although to outsiders it might seem like just another business day. While it’s true that Apple buys smaller tech companies from time to time–so much that their standard company answer to journalists is “we buy tech companies all the... Read more

The Best Gets Better: CCleaner’s Latest Update

News Software Reviews System Tuning January 29, 2016

There are a few applications that every tech user–from the IT expert down to those who do little more than email and Solitaire–needs to have in the arsenal. A strong, updated antivirus and anti-malware package is vital, a really powerful, updated browser is a must, and a highly-functional but... Read more

Police Bodycams Infected With Conficker

News January 28, 2016

Love ’em or hate ’em, there is no question that law enforcement officers have a difficult job. They’re rarely called unless something horrible is going down, they’re the butt of universal jokes, and even worse, a few high-profile bad apples have painted all officers with the same corrupt, power-mongering... Read more

Shodan Browser Lets You Spy On Unsecured IoT Devices

Internet News January 27, 2016

Forget the saga of accidentally leaking your webcam to the internet, or that one school where the students’ laptops had a low-jack feature that let the administration spy on them in their bedrooms. Those incidents are mere child’s play compared to the privacy breach that many IoT users are... Read more

Novabench Takes The Guess Work Out Of Tech

News Software Reviews System Tuning Windows January 26, 2016

One of the hardest things for any hands-off tech user to know–whether a private consumer or a corporate client–is if their equipment is up to snuff. There’s a lot of wasted money out there in upgrading components or entire systems, and the result is often a storage closet overflowing... Read more

Hacking The Fortress Of Antivirus Software

News January 25, 2016

Your computer is only as safe as the antivirus software you put in place. What happens when those protections are hacked? As any good 13th century Viking horde knows, you can’t pillage the town without breaking through the village’s defenses, which often started with a giant stone wall and... Read more

Organized Criminals Now Have Productivity Software

Business News Productivity January 22, 2016

Don’t you just hate it when your crime spree numbers are down due to lack of organization among your team members? Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a desktop application or mobile app to help streamline your productivity when it comes to hurting others and destroying lives? If... Read more

iOS Glitch Lies About Your Phone’s Dead Battery

Mobile News January 20, 2016

What is it with software bugs and our battery life? Can’t we just have unlimited power–not the “take over the world” kind, but at least the “make my phone work” kind? Much like the previous Google Nest announcement that a software bug in the recent December update caused Nest... Read more

Why Can’t We Get Education Software Right?

News January 19, 2016

It never fails. A government agency–like a department or ministry of education, whether at the local, state, or federal level–introduces a new software system that is supposed to streamline the workload, make instant access to information possible, and increase efficiency. Just like all the other titles that have come... Read more

A Higher Calling For Open-Source Software

Development News January 18, 2016

Open-source software–or at least the concept that drives it, a world where coding expertise and technology are furthered for the good of the public instead of corporate profit–is gaining traction in a big way. Some top names in tech have even announced their support for open-source, and whole crowdfunding... Read more

Nest Software Glitch Deactivated Users’ Thermostats

News January 15, 2016

With the recent winter heat wave in much of the US safely behind us, now’s the time for all the social media posts complaining about the bitter cold. But the reality of winter set in accidentally for Nest users, many of whom awoke to find the heat shut off... Read more