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Password Use Study: massive reuse of passwords

A recent password use study by the German Hasso-Plattner-Institute of roughly 1 billion user accounts concluded that 20% of users were reusing passwords. Additionally, 27% of users used password that were nearly identical with other account passwords.

User accounts and passwords are still the dominating method of authentication both locally and online.

Find out if a Windows program is 32-bit or 64-bit

If you have bought a computer in recent years, chance is you run a 64-bit version of Windows on it. While Microsoft is still producing 32-bit copies of Windows 10, those are sold and deployed considerably less than 64-bit copies.

Microsoft itself has not released statistics about the distribution of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems. If you look at Steam's Hardware Survey, as flawed as it is, you will notice that 64-bit dominates the chart.

Malwarebytes 3.0: new all-in-one protection

Malwarebytes 3.0 is a new product by Malwarebytes, makers of security software that unifies the company's main security products in a single program.

Home users had the choice between three different products for Windows desktop PCs up until now: There was Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit, and Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware.

Last Chance to be part of Donation Coder’s N.A.N.Y 2017 event

Donation Coder hold an event each year called New Apps for the New Year, or short N.A.N.Y, in which coders pledge and release new programs.

What I like particularly is that there is always a wide variety of programs that get released during the event. You get Windows programs and Android apps mostly, but web apps have made an appearance in recent years as well.

All programs and apps are free to download and use, and the majority of Windows apps are portable on top of that.

Windows 10 Build 14986 ships

Microsoft released Windows 10 Build 14986 to the Insider Preview Fast Ring. The new build introduces a massive number of new features, improvements and changes.

First, a word of warning. Since this is a preview build, there are things that may not work properly. It is recommended to run these preview builds on non-production machines. If you have important data on a system, make sure you back up the data before you install the new version.

Flash tops the Exploit Kits Chart in 2016 again

If you needed another reason not to use Flash anymore, a new security report by Recorded Future may convince you to consider this at the very least.

The company analyzed 141 exploits kits that were available between November 16, 2015 and November 15, 2016.

The main takeaway of the research study is that Adobe Flash vulnerabilities made up six of the top ten chart spots.

Enterprises face troubling Windows 10 rapid release scheme

Windows 10 is different in many regards to previous versions of Windows. One core difference is that it marks the move from releasing a new version of Windows every three or so years to Windows as a service.

What is meant by that is that Windows will follow the same model that Office 365 and other SAAS products offer. Namely, that there won't be a Windows 11, 12 or One, but only Windows 10 that is constantly updated.

Vivaldi 1.6 gets Title Tab Notifications

Vivaldi is working on version 1.6 of the web browser currently and pushing out updates to the developer channel regularly that introduce new features.

You have probably come across sites in the past that use the page title to indicate that updates are available.

This is mostly done by social sites such as Twitter or Facebook to indicate new posts or messages.

While you may find these hints useful as they notify you when something happens on a social media site, you may have noticed as well that they may impact the page title negatively.