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MailStore Home has been my go-to email backup solution for over a decade. The free solution for home users is easy to use, includes search functionality across all archived emails, and much more. Vanderplanki, which sounds like a small town somewhere in Northern Europe, is an email backup solution. It is developed by the founders […]
Microsoft OneDrive is used by millions of users, largely thanks to its integration as the default cloud file hosting service on Windows and Microsoft 365. Security researchers at Oasis Security discovered a flaw in OneDrive that could give services, apps, and websites full access to all hosted files. Many web services and sites support uploading […]
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler stumbled upon a large database of login information and passwords containing over 184 million records recently. He mentioned the discovery in an article on Website Planet. The data was not encrypted in any form and stored publicly, which meant that anyone with knowledge of its existence could download the data. The […]
Microsoft Authenticator is a free security application by Microsoft. Its main function is the generation of security codes for two-factor authentication to better protect online accounts such as your eBay account. Microsoft extended functionality in the past so that users could also save passwords for apps or websites in Authenticator to have them autofilled when […]
In a staggering privacy breach, over 21 million images documenting employee activity from a workplace surveillance tool have been leaked. The affected app is called WorkComposer, which is used by IT teams to monitor employees in an office. ADVERTISEMENT The leak was discovered by researchers at Cybernews, who revealed that the images contained sensitive data, […]
Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 reach end of support on October 14, 2025. That is the last day of support, which means that Microsoft won’t release security updates or any other type of update for the applications anymore. Technical support, furthermore, is also ending on that day. ADVERTISEMENT Office customers won’t get an option […]
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a nationwide warning about a surge in “smishing” attacks, a form of phishing conducted via SMS messages. These scams are designed to deceive recipients into divulging personal and financial information by impersonating legitimate organizations. ADVERTISEMENT In these smishing campaigns, victims receive unsolicited text messages claiming they […]
Microsoft has officially announced plans to discontinue support for OneNote for Windows 10, the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version of its popular note-taking application, in October 2025. This decision is part of the company’s strategy to consolidate its OneNote offerings into a single, unified application. ADVERTISEMENT Historically, Microsoft has maintained two separate versions of OneNote […]
If you do use Microsoft Word, you may have noticed the “draft with Copilot” icon that Microsoft added to it. It is displayed whenever you create a new document. ADVERTISEMENT Using it, you may give Microsoft’s AI instructions to create a document draft. This is not the only AI-feature that Microsoft baked into Word. A […]
Microsoft is doing a commendable job when it comes to Windows security. Keeping billions of devices secure is no small feat. Sometimes, however, it appears that someone at Microsoft is pushing the breaks regarding specific vulnerabilities. ADVERTISEMENT Take the following attack method as an example. It is a vulnerability in .lnk shortcuts that is exploited […]