The symbol of the National Crime Prevention Council celebrates another year delivering crime prevention and safety information nationwide. So remember to take a bite out of Crime Celebrate McGruff’s and the National Crime Prevention Council’s efforts to “Take A Bite Out Of Crime” by joining us on your favorite social media site. Back in 1980, a […]
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The Microsoft Developer Network, better known as MSDN, now called Visual Studio Subscriptions, is one of Microsoft’s most misunderstood products. The Visual Studio Subscription (formerly MSDN) is one of the largest community platforms for developers working on Microsoft technologies. What You Get in Your Visual Studio Subscription With an MSDN subscription, you get all the software […]
When it comes to privacy, using Google search is not the best of ideas. When you use their search engine, Google is recording your IP address, search terms, user agent, and often a unique identifier, which is stored in cookies. Here are a few Google search alternatives DuckDuckGo is a US-based search engine that was […]
Are you ready for the latest in security patch updates? I’m not, but it’s that time again. Ref: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=windows+security+update+2018 Microsoft today released security patch updates for more than 50 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Edge, MS Office, MS Office Exchange Server, ChakraCore, and Adobe Flash Player—11 of which are rated critical and 39 as […]
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Microsoft is reportedly acquiring #GitHub
#Microsoft is reportedly acquiring #GitHub – and we are now expecting the announcement sometime this week. New reports out of Redmond this weekend have Microsoft set to purchase the popular coding site GitHub. Bloomberg is citing “people familiar with the matter,” stating that the deal could be announced as early as tomorrow. The new story […]
Last year, the US government made moves to ban the use of Kaspersky security software in federal agencies, claiming the company’s ties to the Russian government represented a security risk. In September, the Department of Homeland Security issued an order that required federal departments and agencies to remove the company’s software from their systems. Then, […]