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Clearly, adequate vibration testing was not done.

While I'm sure the HD and Laptop manufacturers learned a hard lesson here, there is still an important lesson that we all need to remember. Hd's are found in a LOT of things, car entertainment systems, cable boxes, surveillence/security systems. Vibration damping is critical for all of these systems. I spent 8 years designing and building shock and vibration resistant systems worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each. It isn't as easy as mounting stuff of rubber grommets.

Bitlocker is the Debbil!

Windows KB5012170 update causing BitLocker recovery screens, boot issues Windows users who have installed a new KB5012170 security update for Secure Boot have encountered various issues, ranging from boots failing with BitLocker Recovery prompts to performance issues.

Do you use Microsoft Teams? Spotify? Discord? Or probably a million other apps that are based on Electron? If so, Houston, we have a problem....

A vulnerability was found in Electron which is what drives Discord, Spotify, and Microsoft Teams We use cookies to help us enhance your online experience. If that sounds good, click “Accept All Cookies” or to review our Privacy and Cookie Policy click here.

SOME KEY INFO FOR THE GULLIBLE:
1. The government will not robo-call you with an automated system giving you an option to speak with a representative.

2. If the government thinks that you owe them money, and they call you rather than using the US Mail, they will call you with a live human and they will address you by your name.

3. If the government thinks you have been a victim of identity theft or fraud, and is seeking to contact you to inform you and ask you some necessary questions, they will in fact call you... with a live agent (Typically the Secret Service is tasked with credit card fraud) and by your name.

4. If the government actually thinks they have hard evidence that you have committed a criminal activity, they will not call you on the phone, they will visit you in person, with an arrest warrant in hand.

5. Amazon/ebay/etc is not going to call you to warn you of a large impending purchase. They are happy as a clam for you to spend that much money. They are NOT going to call you to confirm. And they will NEVER ask to take over your computer.

6. McAfee/Norton/Microsoft is not going to generate a pop-up ad or send you an email from a Gmail address warning you of an infection and tell you to click on the link or call a phone number. That is called a phasing scam.

Please don't be a trusting fool, the world is a dark and scary place, view everything you see as a probable scam. Only after doing your research should you click on ANYTHING you see online, and even then, be wary. Many of us grew up trusting our fellow man. That is not the world we live in now.

If you have 7-Zip installed in your machine, a vulnerability that has been seen used in "the wild" uses the help file included in the program to give other files administrator privileges. The solution is to go to the installation folder of the program and delete the 7-Zip.chm file (the help file). It will not affect how the program works, it just disables the help function.