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Ignore That Email: Nobody is Spying On You
We posted this on Facebook a few weeks ago, but it’s worth mentioning here again. An email has been going around the past few months. It takes some different forms but generally follows the same pattern: Someone “hacked” you and has your password They’ve been monitoring you They’ll send your information to all your contacts […]
Last Minute Holiday Gifts From DoctorDave
It’s a few days before Christmas, and you need an excellent holiday gift. We’ve got a few popular ones. DoctorDave Gift Certificates It may not be the most exciting of gifts I know. After all, who gives gift certificates to a medical doctor? While we do computer repair as the main focus, we’re more into […]
Has Your Password Been Stolen?
With all the recent and continuing breaches, one thing we learned is you can’t rely on a company to tell you. Breaches are reported months and sometimes years later. If you’d like to check if yours was stolen, the website “Have I been pwned” helps. All you do is put in your username or email […]
Beware of Browsers That Fill Stuff In
A few years back, companies realized we often fill out the same things over again on webforms. They thought “Hey, why don’t we keep track of that stuff for you?” That idea was great, but hackers have exploited it. As this article points out, hackers have taken advantage of the idea. They can trick Safari […]
Password insecurity: Clever and not-so-clever tips
In our line of work we encounter lots of passwords. We always try to turn our heads while doing our computer repairs to allow clients to enter their passwords but sometimes when a computer is left for repair at our office (4105 West Sixth Street, Lawrence, KS) a written password is necessary. Too often customers […]
I know your password and here’s why!
I’m no genius by any stretch of the imagination and I’m certainly not a hacker, but facts are that people’s passwords follow certain patterns. Here’s a great article about how hackers easily figure out your passwords. The 10 most common passwords are listed here and, honestly, these are the first ones I try when a […]
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