security
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Good Job Team: New TVs Are Vulnerable To Malware, Viruses
31Welcome to Hell, where our TVs get infected with ransomware and viruses.
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Update WinRAR On Your PC Right Now
Last month a 19-year-old bug was discovered in WinRAR, the software many PC users use to extract .zip and other files on their computer. While the company was quick to patch the bug, that match requires users to update their software in order to be safe — and a lot of people haven’t yet.
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The Steam Exploit That Let You Get Free Keys For Any Game
Until mid-August this year, it was possible for anyone to steal activation keys for any game on Steam. Fortunately for Valve — and every developer on the company’s platform — the security researcher who discovered the exploit, Artem Moskowsky, decided to give Valve a heads-up. The problem has since been fixed, but man, was it…
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Why I Can’t Quit Chrome
Google Chrome was released to the world 10 years ago today. I’ve been using the browser since it launched on OS X in 2009, and let me tell you what, I feel trapped now. This power-hogging, data-gobbling piece of software is where I spend most of my days, although not necessarily because I want it…