We’ve owned Samsung smartphones since the early days. Samsung posted a press release where it has committed to three generations of Android OS updates for millions of Galaxy devices. This means you shouldn’t get a Samsung phone or tablet that isn’t on the list. Galaxy S series: Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G, S20 Ultra, S20+ 5G, S20+, S20 5G, S20 in addition to S10 5G, S10+, S10, S10e, S10 Lite and upcoming S series devices Galaxy…

Spoiler alert. The internet isn’t going away any time soon. The internet has been around for a long time and the Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/web/web.php) has been used as a repository for historical websites. The site can be used to determine what content may have been deleted from the current version. If you have ever used the Wayback Machine, it can be a little slow and doesn’t consistently capture every website version. There are…

Here we go again. It’s a reboot recommendation to use a password manager. A password manager stores your important credentials in an encrypted database that is unlocked using one master password. In other words, you only need to remember one password to gain access to all your other passwords. But wait. Why can’t you just tell your browser to remember your passwords? The short answer is they are not that good at protecting your credentials…

Here we go again. Another zero-day flaw has been revealed that attacks Chromium-based browsers. Chromium-based browsers include Chrome, Edge and Opera browsers. The Hacker News reported that attackers can bypass CSP (Content Security Policy) protection for unpatched browsers. As the post stated, “According to PerimeterX, some of the most popular websites, including Facebook, Wells Fargo, Zoom, Gmail, WhatsApp, Investopedia, ESPN, Roblox, Indeed, TikTok, Instagram, Blogger, and Quora, were susceptible to the CSP bypass.” The Chrome…

Decisions, decisions. We are just beginning to see Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) for sale and generally available to the public. Wi-Fi 6 promises to greatly improve range and speed of our wireless networks. Personally, I’m looking for more choices with a Wi-Fi 6 router that also supports WPA3. To add to the confusion, the Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) specification is already in development and should be released in May of 2021. A report by The Register goes…

While it is a best practice to control recording of your video conference meetings, it is impossible to stop someone from doing it. Zoom is the video conferencing tool of choice for a large number of users. As we teach lawyers on how to use Zoom securely and ethically, we recommend disabling recording to the cloud, only allow local recording and only allowing the host to record. Even with these restrictions, you can’t stop a…

An operating system is a complex beast. Programmers spend a lot of time building various functions and features into the operating system and strive to protect users from themselves. The Windows registry is a database that controls a lot of the Windows operation, but not everyone is happy with restrictions Microsoft places on the user. Bleeping Computer has a post that details various registry hacks to change how Windows operates. As with any manual registry…