How To Fix Not Responding Windows Explorer
Are you having problems with windows explorer? Here are a few steps on how to fix windows explorer not responding or windows crashing issue. There is a Windows 10 feature in File Explorer called “Quick Access”. This feature allows you easy access files and folders you frequently use, either it be locally or on the network and OneDrive.
Quick Access can make your workflow faster by making it so you don’t have to navigate to a file’s or folder’s that are buried deep in a directories file system. However, on occasion you may want to delete the Quick Access history to help maintain some privacy or quicker access or just resolve the explorer crashing issue
Clearing Windows 10 Quick Access History
- Click Start or Cortana’s search field and type: file explorer options and hit Enter or click the option at the top of the search results.
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Firefox 70 Tells You If Website Breached
Firefox 70 has been released for Windows, Mac, and Linux and with it comes additional protection like telling you if a website was breached. Firefox 70 also has a new ability for providing social tracking protection and the most awesome feature is that it has a integrated data breach notification service for your saved logins.
Lockwise data breach notifications
With Firefox 70, the Lockwise password manager will now warn you if your saved login credentials were exposed in a data breach.
If your login information was saved to the password manager priror to the data breach, Firefox will display an alert in lockwise logins entry. This alert will state that “Passwords were leaked or stolen from this website since you last updated your login details” and then prompt you to change your password.
You can download Firefox 70 from the following links:
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Top Email Phishing Scams
Email phishing scams have evolved to a point that makes it very difficult to tell which are real and which are fake. These days phishing emails are imitating legitimate brands and people to trick victims into providing money or providing credentials over an email or a fake landing page.
Roughly one in four Americans in constantly online. According to Research, Email Phishing scams this is now the most likely place for identity theft to occur. Often, ID fraud can begin with the wrong click on a scam email.
Now you have been a victim or you want to know the best way to avoid online scams? Rule of thumb is question everything. Even emails from known peers. They may have been hacked and the hacker is sending scam emails in their behalf. We have reviewed the latest email scan types used to date that that just might fool even the … Read the rest
Is Microsoft Teams HIPAA Compliant?
Many still seem to wonder and ask what is Microsoft Teams and is this software questionable for use? This includes compliance and security officers in the Healthcare industry leading them to ask is this HIPAA Compliant? However lets go back to the basics, Microsoft Teams is a cloud platform that combines workplace chat, meetings, notes, and attachments. Microsoft Teams is Microsoft’s was created to be the competitor to Slack and Google Hangouts Chat.
Microsoft Teams and the Business Associate Agreement
I have previously mentioned that their is a office365 Business Associate Agreement which is the written contract between a Covered Entity and a Business Associate. It is required by law for HIPAA compliance.
I have checked Microsoft’s site and found a page called:
Microsoft Teams Security Features
Certification and Compliance
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Achieving Security with IoT (Internet of Things)
Our lives have been taken over with many many WiFi enabled capable devices. The internet of things (IoT) has quite a flaw which is security. Many vendors lax on providing security updates to their software that are used in smartphones, tablets, PC’s , Game Consoles , TV’s , your Fridge and many other devices. This day in age we have to maintain a due-care and due-diligence approach on security for all these IoT devices.
With this in mind, here are seven best practices on security for IoT:
- Use security gateways: They have the ability to inspect and audit the communications of your network.
- Use VLans: Put all IoT devices in a separate Vlan outside primary business network.
- Use strong authentication: Change those consumer devices default passwords!
- Disable services: Many devices use telnet, FTP and other risky services that may be exposed to the internet.
- Use secure protocols:
The Best Home Lab For System Administrators
This home lab is great for anyone who is just starting off their IT career and looking to get a step up in knowledge by chasing after it. If your a System Administrator already get yourself a lab anyways because the more you know the better.
Having a Home Lab builds your confidence because you obtain the technical know how for deploying new infrastructures. You gain confidence because you have created the environments you currently work with or you create a similar clients environment in your home lab then you learn what could happen and what will happen and how to go about troubleshooting or setups and migrations. As someone that has their own Home Lab I do know the benefits of it and what knowledge you would gain from it. As an employer I ask every interviewee if they have a home lab or not because this lets me … Read the rest
How To Fix OneDrive High CPU Usage
OneDrive high CPU usage problem
- Open Task Manager, right-click the Microsoft OneDrive process and select End Task and the restart one drive to see if it works.
- If step one has not resolved the issue, open Task manager again and end the OneDrive process and exit OneDrive , afterwards navigate to the following location in File Explorer:
– C:\Users\yourusername\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\setup\logs - Locate the following two hidden files and delete them from the folder.
- UserTelemetryCache.otc
- UserTelemetryCache.otc.session
- Now restart OneDrive and see if it is now working properly.
- If nothing helps, you may have to uninstall OneDrive completely and reinstall it again. OneDrive Download
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What Are The Top Office365 HIPAA Mistakes
Office365 is a fantastic product, and it can certainly be HIPAA-compliant. But only if you take the time to set everything up the right way for the organization.
Here the top Office365 HIPAA mistakes that we see organizations make:
Free Outlook.com is not HIPAA compliant! Unfortunately, Microsoft’s HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) doesn’t cover their free email. That means there’s no way to make your free Outlook.com compliant with HIPAA. Let me mention that using free email is also unprofessional.
Rushing through the setup. A proper office365 configuration should take around 3 to 5 hours to do a proper setup to meet compliance with industry best practices. If you didn’t spend a similar amount of time, there’s more work to do.
Don’t mess up the HIPAA BAA. Did you even read the Microsoft BAA? I doubt it… The BAA is the FIRST step to being HIPAA-compliant. A lot of practices
Keeping Windows 7 Will Put Companies And Users At Risk
Keeping Windows 7 will put Companies and users at risk if they do not move onto Windows 10. Microsoft will terminate support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020 and this is coming up quickly there is not much time.
It’s not just Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 that are approaching the end of life. This table shows you the Microsoft products that are approaching the end of life.
| Operating System | End of life date |
| Windows 7 | January 14th 2020 |
| Windows Server 2008 | January 14th 2020 |
| Office 2010 | October 13th 2020 |
| Windows Server 2012 | January 10th 2023 |
| Windows 8 / 8.1 | January 10th 2023 |
| Office 2013 | April 11th 2023 |
| Windows 10 | October 14th 2025 |
| Office 2016 | October 14th 2025 |
What is end of life?
Products go through life cycles and as a company produces a new version of software the one it replaces heads towards end of life. When … Read the rest
Government Database On 92M Brazilians Found For Sale
A Government Database on 92 million Brazilians was found for sale on a dark web forum. Following a tip-off from a analyst known as Breach Radar, a BleepingComputer reporter investigated the auction of an alleged government database containing the personal information.
It was found that the seller called X4Crow was claiming that the database includes personal information such as names, mother’s name, gender, dates of birth and taxpayer IDs of the 92 million citizens. The data is sorted across provinces in Brazil, and a sample acquired by Ilascu verified the accuracy of this claim. BleepingComputer also has information to suggest that this is a government database.
Ionut Ilascu found that the database was being auctioned across multiple restricted access dark web marketplaces. The starting price for this 16GB, SQL format, database is $15,000
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