Social engineering is a nefarious technique used by scammers to gain your trust. By imitating trustworthy sources and exploiting human psychology, hackers manipulate you into freely divulging confidential information. By learning some common social engineering attacks and how to prevent them, you can keep yourself from becoming a victim. Phishing Attacks Phishing attacks are by far the most common form of social engineering attack. Most commonly, an attacker imitates an email from a party that you trust....

Locations The most traditional way of accessing files in KDE is to go directly to the location of the file. The most obvious approach for direct location access is to use the file manager – Dolphin. By clicking on the breadcrumb location bar anywhere after the last letter, Dolphin will give you the option to edit the location manually by typing it into the location bar. You can also do this in all KDE file dialogs....

1. Untappd This is the biggest, and arguably best, craft beer app out there. Think of it as Facebook meets Yelp, for beer: it has lots of reviews, ratings, and social tools. Your local breweries and pubs are likely to be listed, and if you’re lucky, they’ll update their beer lists with some regularity. You can find ratings for just about any beer in existence, though typing works way better than the barcode scanner....

On May 19, 2015, Apple and Google urged U.S. President Barack Obama to reconsider forcing private sector technology firms to include backdoors in their cryptographic algorithms. I aim to explain how this affects us as consumers of technology and the bottom lines of the corporations that provide us with said technology. A Little Bit Of History: Dual_EC_DRBG You could be forgiven if the term “Dual_EC_DRBG” sounds like arcane gibberish to you, but it’s perhaps a term tied to one of the biggest scandals in the history of encryption technology....

I’ve assembled this list of laptop trends that I think could potentially emerge in the next 12 months. I’m basing these predictions on both rumours and patterns I’ve spotted in the industry when reviewing numerous laptops over the course of 2022. There’s a good chance that many of these predictions may not come to fruition, but that’s all part of the fun (and a better way to end the year than a stern analytical piece)....

Uses For Shortcuts The new shortcuts feature could save a company time when doing reporting and standardize what specific data gets tracked. For team members that aren’t familiar with an interface like this, an admin can set up certain shortcuts to be tracked by Marketers or even Administrative Assistants, without them having to know how or where to find anything but that tab in the analytics dashboard. Analyzing marketing data is crucial to any campaign so it’s vital that it be easy to navigate, easy to understand, and organized....

1. Tar Probably one of the most common archives, tar is free and cool. To create and archive, the syntax is Here, “c” is to create a new archive, “v” for verbose mode, and “f” to give a name to the created archive. But tar archives can also tag along with gzip in order to compress the file. Simply add the option “z” to the previous line, and you will create a ....

The Internet’s version of this is basically the U2F key. Although you still have to type your password, the extra work you have to do with two-factor authentication disappears because all you have to do is insert your physical key into a USB slot. But is this method at least as secure as other authentication methods? And perhaps more importantly, does it address anything new? A Quick Crash Course on U2F Authentication To explain how U2F works, you must already understand two-factor authentication....

But now we do so many things on our smartphones that they have to be big enough to be able to handle all the functions yet small enough that we can keep them with us at all times. While finding the right size can be difficult, this brings up the question, does a phone’s size and weight affect your purchasing decisions? Our Opinion Miguel reports that it does matter. He prefers phones with a 5....

The first place I found the Dunno app was on my MacBook. Just reading through the description had my mind going in several different directions thinking of all the different ways I could use it and how much it would help me. Once I got to the section that said it would share the information across all my Apple devices, I was sold. All versions of this app are free, by the way....

Setting up GoodSync in Windows Download and install GoodSync in Windows. The free version comes with full features for the first 30 days; after which there is a limitation on the numbers of jobs and sync-able files. The full version costs $29.95. Once installed, run GoodSync. When prompted, select “Yes, connect my computers using GoodSync Connect”. Create a new GoodSync Connect account. This is used as an identification for all devices running GoodSync Connect....

One of the changes you’re going to see is the “Upload” button being replaced by an arrow pointing up. You will also notice a more up-to-date font, round buttons and a better layout for a lot of pages. Google is also going to throw in a little something extra. Now the search bar and other items will change their color, so the color matches the scheme of whatever site you decide to visit....

Many Linux distributions (like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Fedora Core) use the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) format to distribute program files, documentation and other application assets. It is like a compressed archive that can execute pre- and post-install scripts, plus it can specify different bits of metadata including a list of packages that need to be pre-installed. RPM packages won’t install unless all the pre-requisite packages have been installed....

While this is extremely useful and a huge time-saver when it comes to finding specific words on the current tab, FindBar Tweak for Firefox lets you go a step further. This add-on gives you the ability to search for text in all of your tabs, not just the current one. To use it, install the add-on (no restart needed) and you should immediately see a “find in all tabs” option when you bring up the find bar....

The company has been sending out emails to Stadia customers notifying them of the imminent refund. Assuming the refund processing goes to plan, it will mean that customers receive their refunds just over a month before the Google Stadia service is shut down altogether. Google announced the abrupt end of its ambitious cloud gaming service back in late September, with a final date set for January 18, 2023. At the time it said that a full refund would be issued for any hardware, game, and add-on content purchases related to Stadia, as the platform will be rendered completely unplayable after this date....

Nikola Tesla, an inventor and electrical engineer, in the early twentieth century first postulated that it is possible to transmit electricity through the air. This scientific concept led to the formulation of the ‘resonant magnetic coupling’ or ‘magnetic induction’ process which the wireless charging technology is based on. For example, magnetic induction is utilized for recharging electric toothbrushes. The base of the toothbrush has a magnetic coil that creates a magnetic field....

What Made ARM Such a Hit? In order to dive deeper into this problem, we must first ask ourselves what helped ARM solidify its place in the mobile world. Answer this question, and you’ll realize what Intel has to compete with in the first place. First of all, ARM was always chiefly focused on making processors that require very little power to operate. The GHz/watt ratio of an ARM processor far surpasses anything you can buy from Intel for your desktop....

Do you feel bothered when you come across messages like this? You are not alone. In a rush to get things done, many users get frustrated when they come across such messages, because they feel that it is a troublesome task to create a complicated password where they can’t remember. However, most people don’t realize that it is actually very easy to crack passwords. It only takes five minutes to hack a lower-case-only password with six characters or less....

When your phone breaks and the screen is no longer working, not only can you not use your phone, but now all that information stored on your phone is inaccessible. The good news is it’s possible to recover all the information on your device with a little troubleshooting. Use OTG to Gain Access If you can see the screen but can’t touch it because you’ll cut your hand, or if the screen is not responsive, use an OTG adapter to control the phone with a mouse....

You could just buy an external optical drive, but if you already have a desktop or laptop PC (or access to a friend’s), you can just share the drive on the PC over the network and leech files from it. This saves you money, and to be honest, it’s fun to do. Obviously there are limitations to this approach, but for emergencies, it’s good to know. Why a PC? Well, statistically it’s more likely in an emergency that you’ll be able to find a friend who has a Windows PC than one who has a Mac....