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…
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. The Firefox web browser provides a robust environment for improving online security and privacy. Most people should use the Extended Support Release (ESR) version of Firefox. Download and install that version from…
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. On May 12 a ransomware attack began in Europe and spread quickly throughout the world to computers in more than 150 countries. The malware affects all recent Windows operating…
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. Less than a generation ago, before the world wide web became globally popular, before smart phones existed, the most widely used apps on a computer probably were a word processor and spreadsheet.…
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. Being anonymous and protecting privacy are not the same. Being anonymous means being unrecognizable such that correlating information is impossible or challenging. In every day life many people know one another. They…
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. Do you remember the books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass? The stories have long evoked a common metaphor, popularized within the past generation from the movie The Matrix.…