Daily Archives: April 18, 2022
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Making connections between computers and monitors
ISSUE 19.16 • 2022-04-18 HARDWARE
By Ben Myers
With four different standards for video ports and cables, as well as some “mini” ports, it can be downright confusing to come up with the right cables to connect your computer to a monitor.
In the best of all possible worlds, we would all want to buy a computer and a monitor at the same time, ensuring that they connect to one another and work well together with the right cabling. In our real world, a computer meets an untimely demise and an upscale monitor is still exactly what we need. Or maybe the monitor fails to light up, it becomes too dim, you punch out the screen in anger, or it is simply time for a larger monitor. Possibly you want to attach a monitor to your laptop, duplicating the laptop screen on a larger viewing area or using dual screens to see more information.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.16.0, 2022-04-18).
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Protect yourself from iPhone and Android spying
PUBLIC DEFENDER
By Brian Livingston
As technology marches forward, there are more and more things for us to watch out for. One thing you might not be aware of is how easy it is for someone to listen to everything you say through a smartphone, such as an iPhone — even if the device is turned off.
That’s right. That innocent-looking glass slab on the next table could be picking up everything you say and transmitting it 100 meters or so to an Apple AirPod earpiece, in the case of an iPhone, or to any wireless headphones, by using an app for Android phones.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.16.0, 2022-04-18).
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Lance Whitney: Taking center stage
PROFILES
By Chris Husted
When a person with 25 years’ experience as a technology writer has some wisdom to impart, it pays to listen.
Lance Whitney has been a full-time freelance tech journalist for “only” the past 12 years, but that comes after decades of working in IT first as a technician, then as a consultant, and today as a writer of tech articles scripted especially for IT professionals and for the everyday user, as AskWoody readers already know.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.16.0, 2022-04-18).
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Drenched in patches
PATCH WATCH
By Susan Bradley
As is typical for this time of year, Microsoft is releasing a deluge of security patches for our Windows machines.
One threat has already been used in the wild. CVE-2022-24521 is a vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System Driver and can lead to elevation of privileges on a system. Troubling to me is CVE-2022-26809, which is a potentially wormable remote code vulnerability that could be especially damaging if the attacker gets inside your firewall or network.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.16.0, 2022-04-18).