Before technological advancements of the 21st century, marketing of products and services did offline. Entrepreneurs and salespersons relied on meetings, shops, manual promotion of their products (through the use of banners, posters, flyers), TV advertisements, and other crude methods. Thankfully, recent developments in computer applications, mobile technology, and social media have paved the way for […]
Samsung has started to roll out a fix to the Galaxy S10 SAMSUNG HAS STARTED pushing out a fix for the fingerprint reader glitch plaguing Galaxy S10 and Note 10 devices. The issue, first uncovered last week, allowed anyone’s fingerprints to be used to unlock Samsung smartphones with certain types of screen protectors installed. As per Samsung, the bug affects Galaxy
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Oracle’s October 2019 Critical Patch update contains 219 security patches across virtually all of Oracle’s product families. The company strongly recommends all customers apply the Critical Patch Update immediately, as many breaches are a direct result of not applying security updates when they become available. “Oracle continues to periodically receive reports of attempts to maliciously
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If you installed this month’s first Win10 version 1903 cumulative update, KB 4517389, you may be in for a couple of surprises. Mark Busby on AskWoody reported a strange bug shortly after the patch was released: After installing KB4517389 on these Windows systems, when opening 16-bit applications an error message is displayed “unexpected error; quitting.”
Windows 10 with a range of computers it breaks GATHER ROUND! It’s time for your near-daily explanation of what’s borked with Windows 10 this time. Yes, another day, another patch that breaks things, something that we really ought to be used to by now – we just shouldn’t have to be. This time, its KB4517389
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I reported two days ago that Microsoft seems to have fixed the printing bugs it introduced in the first CVE-2019-1367 Internet Explorer zero-day patch — and apparently reintroduced with the two additional CVE-2019-1367 patches. That’s the good news. Now I have some bad news. Old bugs are back again, and some new ones seem to be
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October is here and fall is in the air, even in Texas. Temperature dropped this past week from highs in the 90s to lows in the 50s (Fahrenheit). The state fair is in full swing here, and the stores are full of Halloween decorations. But to us IT security folks, ghosts and goblins aren’t nearly
It’s hard to overstate the problems caused by Microsoft’s second, third and fourth September cumulative updates for all Windows 10 versions. For example, Win10 version 1903, the latest and greatest, saw cumulative updates on Sept. 10 (KB 4515384), Sept. 23 (KB 4522016), Sept. 26 (KB 4517211) and Oct. 3 (KB 4524147, which some characterize as
This week in future tech, a company hoping to take on the scourge of microplastic has successfully caught tonnes of ocean plastic. After a year’s worth of testing, a large device developed by The Ocean Cleanup has caught its first haul of plastic from the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Launched from the Canadian city
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September signals the real end of summer and beginning of autumn. The changing of the seasons here in Texas brings some relief from the heat. It also traditionally brings some tumultuous weather events such as hurricanes, and this September was no exception. On the IT security front, there was plenty of turbulence as well. Malware
