by leon jordaan 16 january 2021 @ http://computerscairns.com.au and http://allcomputersupport.com.au WOW… An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with a one-line command. This one-liner can be delivered hidden inside a Windows shortcut file, a ZIP archive, batch files, or various other vectors to trigger hard drive errors that corrupt the filesystem index instantly. “Critically underestimated” NTFS […]

by leon jordaan at http://computerscairns.com.au 31 December 2020. If you have installed a recent version of Adobe Flash Player on a Windows machine, you may see a popup displayed by the program that informs you that Flash support is ending on December 31, 2020. Adobe announced years ago that it would end support for Adobe Flash in 2020; browser makers […]

DUST AND WET SEASON humidity by leon jordaan http://computerscairns.com.au on 27 November 2020 So the wet season is here again…yay! Well not for computers with bone dry dust inside on the motherboard/ram/graphics card/heat-sink/power supply…. that dust which is being kept dry by the fans and heat. what happens in wet season when the humidity spikes to %90? […]

Apple on Wednesday agreed to pay $113 million to settle consumer fraud lawsuits brought by more than 30 states over allegations that it secretly slowed down old iPhones, a controversy that became known as “batterygate.” Apple first denied that it purposely slowed down iPhone batteries, then said it did so to preserve battery life amid widespread reports […]

by leon jordaan http://computerscairns.com.au in sub contracting, IT support on 12 November 2020. The Microsoft security update fixes a Windows zero-day vulnerability. On Tuesday, Microsoft rolled out its monthly Patch Tuesday security update for Windows 10, fixing 112 vulnerabilities across the OS, as well as in Microsoft Office, Edge and other products. One of the biggest issues Microsoft patched was a Windows zero-day […]

leon jordaan 6 November 2020 Microsoft says that it fixed a known issue affecting devices running Windows 10, version 2004 since June and causing external displays to go black when drawing in certain applications including Microsoft Office Word and Whiteboard. After impacted external monitors go black, users will also see that their graphics cards are marked as […]

be leon jordaan A threat actor is selling account databases containing an aggregate total of 34 million user records that they claim were stolen from seventeen companies during data breaches. On October 28th, a data breach broker created a new topic on a hacker forum to sell the stolen user databases for seventeen companies. the […]

by leon jordaan http://computerscairns.com.au cairns 3 november 2020 Microsoft today reminded customers that some editions of Windows 10, version 1809 (also known as the October 2018 Update) will reach its end of service next week. For products that reach their end of service, Microsoft stops providing technical support, as well as bug and security fixes for newly discovered […]

by leon jordaan, cairns, queensland http://computerscairns.com.au 3 november 2020 Brave Browser, the privacy-focused web browser, announced today that it grew in usage by over 130% in its first year of the release of its ‘Stable’ version. On November 13th, 2019, Brave Browser released its first Stable version after it had already accumulated 8.7 million monthly active users […]