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The End Of Windows Applications? Microsoft are starting to move users away from the old style API driven Windows programs and towards the store-based UWP apps like the ones you use on your smartphone or tablet.

Facebook Scams That Demean Others You may have seen posts with status messages along the lines of: No one will share this because she is disabled Nobody Likes me just because... Click Like and type Amen Share and type YES if you... But these posts are fake and demeaning to the people featured in the photos.

Is your home router living a secret double life as a botnet DDoS server? The number of private home routers being duped into living a secret life as part of a botnet or in serving up malicious DNS results to it's users has seen a surge in the latter half of 2016. It's thought that the majority of traffic in the DDoS attack on various gaming servers in Christmas 2015 was generated from home routers that had been compromised.

Buyer Beware! You can't escape from the adverts. The American Thanksgiving sales day has been ported over into the UK as a promise of great deals for Christmas shoppers, many taking to online outlets to beat the queues. Retailers such as Amazon, John Lewis and Argos are predicting a record breaking weekend for their online sales. But as with any event that gets users eager to snap up deals online, the criminals are lurking just around the corner ready to take exploit any unsuspecting shoppers.

65% Of '4G' enabled Android phones could be at risk. QuadRooter - What it's all about? A vulnerability had been identified in one of the Qualcomm LTE chipsets used in many modern Android phones. The chipsets primary purpose is to provide access to the LTE network (often called 4G) and the Qualcomm chipsets make up about 65% of the market according to CheckPoint [ http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/08/07/quadrooter/ ]

Summertime Giveaway! As the UK is basking in the summer heatwave, we've got our hottest giveaway to date!