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The post Need Another Reason to Block Automatic Windows Updates? appeared first on BardTech . If you are a regular here on this blog you know that it is better to have automatic updates turned off on Windows as it gives you more control over the updating process and some time to monitor responses to released updates. While most updates install just fine and work fine as well after installation, broken or faulty update releases appear to have increased in recent time. I don’t have scientific data on that but since I cover all Patch Tuesday releases and all major updates released in between the monthly releases, I notice trends and one of these trends is that there are more known issues and more updates that break things or don’t install properly on some systems. The release of Windows 10 version 1803 for instance on Windows Update makes a good example. The update had a lot of bugs initially , and most users were well advised to skip it initially to wait until Microsoft resolved th...

The post Never Forget Another Password with Sticky Password Premium appeared first on BardTech . Thanks to an onslaught of adept and clever hackers and bots, online companies have been forcing users to come up with increasingly complex passwords on a regular basis, and trying to keep track of your long list of obnoxiously cluttered passwords can be a nightmare. Sticky Password Premium lets you never have to worry about forgetting another password ever again, and a lifetime subscription is available for over 70% off at $39.99. This award-winning password management system allows you to manage every password you use with a single master password that’s known by you and only you. You’ll be able to generate complex and strong, encrypted passwords for all of your accounts without having to worry about keeping them recorded or in the back of your head, and Sticky Password Premium lets you automatically save and fill each of your passwords across the web. You’ll also be able to choose ...

The post UK phone giant EE hit by another security lapse appeared first on BardTech . For the second time this week , U.K. phone giant EE has fixed a security lapse, which allowed a security researcher to gain access to an internal site. The researcher, who goes by the pseudonym Six, found the company’s internal training site indexed on Google. (We’re not linking to the page as it remains an active site.) Although the site required an employee username and password to log in, the researcher found that an “admin” account existed, of which anyone with the answer to the secret question could reset the password. It turns out that secret question could have been stronger. “What is your eye color,” the researcher told TechCrunch. “I tried loads of colors and they all give an error,” he said. “The answer was simply ‘brown,’” he said. From there, he gained access to the entire internal training site. EE is the largest phone network in the U.K. with more than 30 million users. TechCru...