This is a Fast-Air Tech Talk security notice. The Tech Talk security notice is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please suggest security notice topics. By default, most digital cameras, including those in phones, embed metadata into digital photo files. This information is called tagging. The metadata includes Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data,…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please suggest newsletter topics. Google Chrome is a popular web browser. The reason is much like the days of Internet Explorer — that is what is installed on many computers — for free — and that…
This is a Fast-Air Tech Talk security notice. The Tech Talk security notice is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please suggest security notice topics. Malware was found in the 32-bit version of CCleaner 5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud 1.07.3191. CCleanup: A Vast Number of Machines at Risk Security Notification for CCleaner v5.33.6162 and CCleaner…
This is a Fast-Air Tech Talk security notice. The Tech Talk security notice is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please suggest security notice topics. Much as been reported the past week about the data breach from Equifax servers, possibly affecting more than 140 million people. Leaked data includes names, addresses, birthdays, social security…
This is a Fast-Air Tech Talk security notice. The Tech Talk security notice is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please suggest security notice topics. Google Chrome web browser users should be aware that installing Adobe Reader DC installs a Chrome extension that collects user web surfing data. The extension can be disabled and…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please suggest newsletter topics. Advertisements are one of the more pervasive ways people are tracked online. Security challenges exist as well because often ads come in the form of Flash. Running Flash videos inside a web…
This is a Fast-Air Tech Talk security notice. The Tech Talk security notice is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please suggest security notice topics. Recently a keylogger was found to exist in many HP laptop audio drivers. The key logger records key strokes to an unencrypted log file. The log file can be…
This is a Fast-Air Tech Talk security notice. The Tech Talk security notice is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please suggest security notice topics. This past December there was a security flaw discovered with Netgear routers. A firmware update is required to patch the flaw. Netgear routers vulnerability Netgear router users should be…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please suggest newsletter topics. Firefox is a good choice for protecting online privacy, but there are some built-in features that users might want to change to better support that goal. One such feature is the Firefox…
This is a Fast-Air Tech Talk security notice. The Tech Talk security notice is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please suggest security notice topics. Recently a security flaw was discovered in the Samba software. Samba is used on Linux and BSD based systems to support file sharing and networking, but the flaw indirectly…