Archive for January 2018

A few days ago it was reported that information from fitness trackers being uploaded to the Strava App may have exposed sensitive details about US military bases around the world.  Since this time the military has made a statement denying that anything useful was gained from the heat maps available online.  However they are reviewing…

  Spectre and Meltdown, the two words definitely sound very scary and ominous.  They are names given to potential security flaws identified in computer chips.  Which chips, you may ask?  The answer is even more scary.. pretty much all of them from the major chip manufacturers Intel, AMD, and ARM dating back as far as…

Boot keys are computer keys that allow you to access other options when turning your computer on rather than going directly into the operating system.  BIOS setup is where you can go to change settings like default boot drives, motherboard settings, and system date and time.  Recovery Options will take you to a Windows recovery…