Users are quickly abandoning Facebook’s WhatsApp and jumping over to Signal or Telegram. You don’t have to just use Signal from your smartphone. You can also run the messaging app from your computer. Yesterday’s post covered some features of Signal Private Messenger that you should be aware of. As TechViral listed, Signal provides these features. Like WhatsApp, Signal also offers features like messaging, voice, and video calls. All forms of communication on Signal Private Messenger…

I’m a big fan of Signal. You can’t beat the app for secure and private communications. It is even more secure than other products such as Telegram and WhatsApp. It’s free too. If you are a Signal Private Messenger user, don’t forget about some of the best available features that users look for in an instant messaging app. TechViral has a post that goes into more detail about five of the best features. Block Screenshot…

One of the most annoying things about using Microsoft Office is read receipts. I’ve always wondered why people insist on getting notice that I’ve actually read a message. Don’t they know that you don’t have to send confirmation and can just ignore the request? Therefore, there never is any proof that you actually read a message. Since many of us are still working from home, we are participating in a lot of virtual meetings. I…

Zoom has a lot of popular features that competitors have copied. One of those is virtual backgrounds. The ability to blur your background or transmit a different background image can make you appear more professional and “hide” the clutter of your home workspace. The Verge has posted instructions on how to change your background if you are using Microsoft Teams. You can change your background prior to starting the meeting. Start your meeting and turn…

Not crazy about the modern user interface of Windows 10? Dying to go back 25 years to how things were? Well, now you can. TechViral has a post with the instructions on how to replace your current Windows 10 desktop with a Windows 95 theme. Follow these abbreviated steps to install the Classic Theme. Download the Windows 95 Classic Theme from here. Unzip the contents of the file. Copy the Classic Theme file to…

Nobody wants to be the victim of a data breach. It’s bad enough that there is already so much of our personal information available to others. According to a post on Threatpost, T-Mobile revealed that it experienced its fourth data breach in the past three years. According to the notice, customer CPNI (customer proprietary network information) was accessed. The good news (if there is any) is that the accessed data did not contain account names,…

Own a Zyxel firewall or VPN product? Patch it now! The Hacker News reported that EYE researcher Niels Teusink found the vulnerability in Zyxel products back in November. Zyxel released a firmware patch on December 18. Apparently, there was an undocumented, hardcoded administrative account found in firmware version 4.60. “Zyxel said the hardcoded credentials were put in place to deliver automatic firmware updates to connected access points through FTP.” Really? Who thought that was a…