Consider the following situation: Someone you’ve communicated with before sends you a personalized but unsolicited email with an attachment. You check the return email and confirm that it came from the person’s legitimate email address. Even though you were not expecting the email, you open the attachment anyway. The Microsoft Office document prompts you to…
Please update your various devices/systems. There have been some recent challenges to the security of Windows and the Chrome browser: A Windows Wifi takeover attack can allow a hacker access to your computer through Wi-Fi without your knowledge or interaction. Chrome has patched 4 zero-day attacks in just two weeks. Most devices will automatically update…
Get your computer issue resolved faster… these 9 important details will help identify the problem. Sometimes computers don’t do what we expect them to do. OK, perhaps more than sometimes. When they don’t, you want to get the problem resolved as quickly as possible. That’s where we, HDF & Associates, come in. We would like…
Privacy simplified. With the free DuckDuckGo browser You share your most intimate secrets with your search engine: medical, financial, and personal issues, along with all your day-to-day concerns. All that personal information should be private, but – on Google – it’s not. On Google, your searches are tracked, stored, and packaged up into a data…
Malware, phishing, ransomware… so many terms. Do you know what they all mean? We all know that our computers are under attack, and we most likely know many of the types of these attacks. But there are probably several types that you are not aware of, leaving you vulnerable. Please review this short list of…
A reboot a week keeps the doctor away Would you like to prevent most of your computer problems with a simple procedure that takes all of 3 minutes once a week? Would you do it? It’s as easy as rebooting your computer… in fact, it *IS* rebooting your computer. To find out why rebooting…
Do you know how to protect yourself online? Two minutes to find out! So, the holidays are over and you’re back at work. Are you focused, or will you fall into one of the many online traps? This quiz will remind you of the most important points to keep you safe! Please take two…
You want to find out if its naughty or nice… This is the time of year to be extra careful with emails. We are often busy with deadlines during the holidays which can lead us to rush more than normal. This could allow us to miss scams that we ordinarily would catch. Be careful, read…
