Beyond Ransomware: How LA Non-Profits Can Prepare
Think ransomware locking your files is your non-profit's worst IT nightmare? There’s a newer, potentially more devastating threat emerging: Data Extortion. Hackers are changing tactics. Instead of just encrypting your systems, ...
WhatsApp Patches Critical Spyware Security Flaw
If you or your employees use WhatsApp, you should be aware of a recent security vulnerability that could put your company at risk. The WhatsApp security flaw allows hackers to control devices ...
Create Links to Selected Text in Long Web Pages
If you have Control- or right-clicked on text in a Web browser in the last year or two, you may have seen an oddly named command: Copy Link with Highlight. When you choose it, it puts a URL on your ...
HomePods Can Alert You of Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarms
Although we think about HomePods as being useful for playing audio and responding to Siri commands for HomeKit devices, they can do more. HomePods can send a notification to your iPhone if their built-in microphones recognize the piercing squeals from ...
Common Sense: The Missing Piece in AI
Your business’s success is a credit to your intuition, experience, gut instincts, and hard skills in management, finance, and operations. AI can help with certain tasks and analyzing data, but it’s not ...
Share Wi-Fi Network Passwords Using QR Codes
A neat feature built into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS is that when you are connected to a Wi-Fi network, your devices will offer to share the Wi-Fi password if others near you try to connect to the same network. However, ...
Don’t Assume Top Google Search Results Are Safe
We hate to encourage paranoia, but all is not well with Google Search. Recently, we’ve heard of multiple instances where people were nearly taken advantage of due to relying on the top result in a Google search. In one case, ...
iOS 18.2+ Can Share the Location of Lost Items in Find My
In iOS 18.2, Apple enhanced the Find My app, enabling you to create a temporary Web page that shares the location of a lost AirTag or other Find My-tracked item. You don’t need to know the person’s email address or ...
Apple Says More Personalized Siri Will Be Delayed
As we’ve been covering Apple’s staged rollout of Apple Intelligence, one announced feature that has remained tantalizingly in the future is the enhanced version of Siri that would have onscreen awareness, understand your personal context, and be able to interact ...
Security Precautions to Take While Traveling
When we think about digital and device security, we mostly think about the fixed locations where people spend most of their time—home, school, and work. But what about when you’re traveling? Some security concerns remain the same when you’re on ...
