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000webhost has been hacked. Account holders need to take action now!

Posted on October 30, 2015

000webhost is one of the largest free web hosting companies on the web, because…well, they don’t charge anything for hosting their customers’ websites.

Approximately 13 million businesses and individuals have websites hosted with them, and now every one of those customers are at great risk of having their websites and other online accounts hacked.

I won’t post the link to 000webhost’s website because it is currently in maintenance mode as they try to mitigate the damage from the hack (you can Google it if you’re curious), but if you are one of their customers you need to take immediate action to protect your website’s information and sensitive customer data. [Read more…]

Bad news for Microsoft: ‘Edge’ browser is largely being ignored by Windows 10 users

Posted on October 7, 2015

When Microsoft launched Windows 10 a couple of months ago, they also launched their brand new Edge web browser along with it.

I believe Microsoft’s decision to create a brand new browser from scratch instead of simply updating Internet Explorer for the 1,000th time was a good one.

Over the years I.E. had earned a reputation for sluggish performance, buggy code and dangerous insecurity, and I don’t thing the company would have ever been successful at rehabilitating that poor reputation. [Read more…]

Scottrade offering clients free identity protection services after being hacked

Posted on October 7, 2015

Investment firm Scottrade has announced that hackers have breached a database containing the personal information of approximately 4.6 million of their clients.

The company is claiming that the affected clients’ social security numbers and various other sensitive types of information doesn’t appear to have been compromised even though that info is contained in the breached database. [Read more…]

Today only! Save $32 on an Amazon Prime Membership

Posted on September 25, 2015

Important: This post is no longer relevant since it discussed a one-day-only discount on an Amazon Prime membership. Also, the current annual price for an Amazon Prime membership is $119.

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If you’ve been wanting to take advantage of all the awesome benefits of an Amazon Prime membership, you now have a chance to sign up for only $67. That’s a whopping $32 off the regular $99 annual membership fee!

Amazon Prime provides way too many benefits to mention here, but I think the free 2-day shipping and free commercial ebooks are plenty enough to justify the regular price, let alone this discounted one. [Read more…]

Get ready: Facebook is planning to introduce a ‘Dislike’ button.

Posted on September 15, 2015

If you’ve been using Facebook for more than 10 minutes you’ve no doubt seen posts that made you so upset you wanted to click a button to “Dislike” it.

Well, before long you’ll be able to do just that.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that the company is actively developing a Dislike button, and it WILL be rolled out to users when it is ready. [Read more…]