Collaborate Disseminate
I’m planning to do a fresh install of Windows 10 on my mother’s computer. Despite it has Pro version right now, I wonder if I should use Home version instead, which is also called Single Language.
After some search, I found that Home doesn… Continue reading Is Windows 10 Home more secure than Windows 10 Pro in some way?
I recently bought a HDMI to VGA + Audio Out adapter on the internet for the purpose to playing Xbox on an old monitor. It came just inside a plastic bag, so I don’t have any guarantees that the equipment have not been opened before.
The ad… Continue reading How evil could an HDMI/VGA adapter be?
I bought a new router to isolate devices in my network, but then I found that famous Steve Gibdson’s Three Dumb Routers episode. I have read the whole transcript but even so I didn’t get why only two routers is not enough to isolate my loc… Continue reading Why use three routers for security purposes instead of two?
I have already read those 3 topics about WPAD attacks but I’m still confused, so I’m here looking for a deeper explanation.
CONTEXT
I think a WPAD attack is happening in my home and I was not aware about what WPAD is until now. A svchost.e… Continue reading How to properly deal with WPAD attacks?
Since data leaks are being more and more common, why companies like Microsoft and Google (but I’m not asking just about them) ask for a previous password if a user try to recover it?
Google’s password recovery step:
Enter the last passwor… Continue reading How is asking for a previous password a good practice?
Send the files by email or upload then in a drive are not a option since my friend’s connection is very poor and is a lot of files.
She gave me a USB drive to save her files but I know her computer is infected with a lot of things, I can … Continue reading How to backup files from a infected computer to a USB drive in a safe way?
I would like to protect my flash drives to being infected when I put it in another computers or devices. After some research, I found that I will not be able to reach this level of protection by using only software solutions (correct me if… Continue reading Is there a option to protect a USB stick from being infected other than flash drives with hardware protection?
My father told to me that his PC has turned on by itself. I have no idea about what this can be, and this has never occurred before. After this, he turned off the PC and I checked my router, and seen that his PC was sending (… Continue reading PC turned on by itself and sending packages even when turned off
Some months ago, I started to receive some emails from “Mail Delivery Subsystem” (mailer-daemon@googlemail.com). Despite this is “automatic” failure email, I thought these emails were spam, so I just ignored. But today much more emails, an… Continue reading Failed to send emails that I never sent
I asked a similar question on this topic and some guys recommended use VLANs or guest network, so I asked to a friend and he will give to me a router with guest network function. However, there is a device (my father’s comput… Continue reading Isolate devices on the same network