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Having a little help from tech to keep an eye on your place is an important choice, and right now there are some serious bargains to be found. Smart camera technology is better than ever, with compact, power-efficient security units that capture high-resolution video. You can expect day and night …

Home security is going to feel more and more important as the world gets more and more uncertain, so now’s the time to invest in tech to keep yourself safe. Indoor and outdoor smart security cameras are an affordable and robust way to monitor your surroundings, trigger alarms and motion …

A security vulnerability has been found in Samsung’s Secure Folder feature, which is made to protect sensitive files and applications on Galaxy devices. The issue was initially reported by a Reddit user who had transitioned from a Google Pixel device. The issue lets applications within a work profile access files …

An important part of a smart home is security. Being able to monitor your interiors and exteriors, and route alerts through your smart screens and speakers to notify you if anything’s amiss, is essential. Prices have been dropping steadily on cameras from high-end brands with great reviews, and Amazon in …

Update 1:33 PM: An earlier version of this story focused entirely on the fact that Microsoft will allow older hardware to install Windows 11 unofficially, even if the company neither recommends nor supports it. Since this story was written, Microsoft has released new information that points to a substantial loophole …

  Apple urged iPhone owners to install the latest update to iOS last month, but that in and of itself wasn’t unusual. What was unusual was the reason for the update. Apple rolled out iOS 14.4 to plug a security hole that online criminals were actively exploiting. Now, that vulnerability …

  Getting data from one place to another is easy when you’ve got reliable internet connectivity, but that’s not the case everywhere. That’s why an Android app called SHAREit has more than a billion downloads. Unfortunately, Trend Micro says the app is also a security nightmare that could allow intruders …

  The SolarWinds saga keeps getting worse as time goes by. Several days ago, news broke that some 18,000 companies had been compromised by a nation-state actor. The attackers in question are believed to be affiliated with Cozy Bear, aka APT29, aka the Russian government. The hack has hit multiple …

  Apple loves to market itself on security and does so more often than most firms. This is always a risky proposition because nothing yells “Please attack me!” more loudly than advertising the strength of one’s security implementation. In this case, security researchers have found a problem in Apple’s T2 …

The Ulysses Strategy (Ulysses is the Latin name for Odysseus) is a method financial planners developed to keep savers and investors from listening to the sirens’ call that could wreck their financial ship. The Story of Ulysses and the Sirens In “The Odyssey,” the great adventurer Odysseus spends ten years …