August 2015

It can be quite difficult to determine whether you are the victim of a Man in the Middle attack.

Eavesdropping is a common Man in the Middle attack type in which communication between two parties is relayed to record the data that is transferred between both parties.

SSL Eye is a free software program for Windows that provides you with a set of tools that help you determine whether your the victim of a Man in the Middle attack.

Stagefright is a critical Android vulnerability that attackers can exploit using specifically prepared Multimedia Messaging Service messages (MMS).

What makes the vulnerability particularly troublesome is that it can be exploited passively on devices. All that it takes is to sent a prepared MMS to a device running Android to get system or media privileges on it.

Since it is possible to delete the MMS after it has been processed by the device and before the user had a chance to open it, it may go by completely undetected.

If things go as planned, Media Source Extensions (MSE) will be available for all websites from Firefox 42 on.

The technology, used by a variety of sites and services to stream HTML5 video supports features such as adaptive streaming or time shifting live streams.

All Firefox versions pre-42 support Media Source Extensions on a whitelist only that enables the functionality on sites such as YouTube or Netflix.

When I checked free storage of the main drive of a computer running Windows 10, I noticed that the folder c:\recoveryimage was taking up more than 27 Gigabytes of space on it.

That was a problem considering that the drive itself had a total size of 180 Gigabyte only.

Further investigation revealed that it was not updated since April 30, 2015, and that the majority of files in it where driver files.

A quick check of the folder showed numerous Nvidia driver folders, all at a size of about 330 Megabyte each.

Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system ships without DVD playback capabilities. When you insert a video DVD into the drive of a computer running Windows 10 you will realize quickly that the DVD won't play on the computer.

Instead, you get an option to search the store for suitable applications or use another program installed on the PC itself (when you right-click and select autoplay for instance).

BitTorrent Sync is a file synchronization software that does not utilize cloud storage to transfer files between devices.

A new version of the open source office suite LibreOffice has just been released. It features an improved user interface, Windows 10 compatibility and better interoperability between different operating systems.

Interested users can download LibreOffice 5.0 from the official project website where it is available as a direct download and a torrent download for all supported operating systems.

Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system ships with quite a few default settings that users may find invasive. We have listed them all in our Windows 10 privacy overview, and if you went through the long guide, you may have noticed that it takes quite a bit of work to adjust them all.

That's where the free program DoNotSpy for Windows 10 comes to play. It provides you with options to set privacy settings from within its interface with just a couple of clicks.

If you run a recent version of Firefox Dev or Nightly, and try to install an unsigned add-on, you may receive the error message that the browser prevented the operation from completing (... has prevented this site from installing an unverified add-on).

Also, if you have unsigned extensions installed in Firefox Nightly, you may have noticed that the most recent update disabled them.

You have several options if you want to save all open tabs in your browser of choice so that you can access them at a later point in time.

Most browsers support session restore for instance which, when enabled, reloads all tabs open the last time you used the browser.

While that works well most of the time, it can have disastrous consequences if it does not as you may lose access to all or some of the sites.