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Weekly Threat News: 12th July, 2019

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[Discussion] A Cybersecurity Guide for Digital Nomads

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freydrew Community and Advocacy Manager

Hacker Files

Hacker Files

A mini podcast series In this special, Webroot podcast series we offer a behind-the-scenes look at the shadowy world of cybercrime from those battling it on the frontlines. Featuring ChannelE2E co-founder and host Joe Panettieri, alongside guest experts from around the industry, discussions delve in...

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News Nearly Half of UK SMBs Believe a Cyberattack Could Close Their Business

44% of decision makers are spending a day each week dealing with cybersecurity issues 64% say workload demands result in mistakes that put the organization at risk 48% deprioritize activities that would grow business to address cybersecurity tasks 46% say a cyberattack it would put them at risk of c...

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MacOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 4 Download Released

MacOS Catalina is set to include a wide variety of new features, including an ability to use an iPad as a second display with a Mac, notable updates to bundled apps like Photos, Notes, and Reminders, the splitting of iTunes into three separate apps for Music, TV, and Podcasts, a new screen saver, ti...

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jwc4jc

moto g6 help
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I have an secure anywhere valid account. My old g4 took the keycode without problems. My new g6 refuses to recognize it. Why?

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nenek

Get login failed at https://my.webrootanywhere.com/default.aspx

Why i get login failed at https://my.webrootanywhere.com/default.aspx? I've reset the password but still same error. I also try login at my phone using chrome and still get same error - "Login failed"

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stevecosta Frequent Voice

Slow scans
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Using the latest webroot V9.0.26.61 on my windows 7 pc. With the latest version scans are now taking about 19 mins. I submitted a support ticket last week. I uploaded logs as requested on thursday and as I had not recieved any response to confirm they had been recieved I contacted weboot. I spoke to...

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notsure New Member

pop ups
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In the past week whenever I am playing a game from Microsoft I receive a pop-up from McAffee to re-subscribe to their product. Is there a way to stop this.

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ProTruckDriver Moderator

Beta 5 of MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 Released for Testing

Apple has released the fifth beta version of MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 to users enrolled in the Mojave beta testing program. No major new features are expected for macOS Mojave 10.14.6, suggesting the update will likely focus on bug fixes and security enhancements. Full Article

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buzzageek New Member

API Scope permissions
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Hi, How do I get access to the tokens that allow me to create orders? My authentication via the API suggests that I don't have permissions. Thanks

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GnDSpr New Member

Outlook steps before repair
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I'm planning to take my W10 in for repairs a my local shop. I really don't want to share my email info with this facility, so I'm wondering what the best approach is to get this accomplished. I realize that there are data files but can I just remove these from their present location and be confiden...

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Jasper_The_Rasper Moderator

RIP Fernando “Corby” Corbató, inventor of the password (1926-2019)

July 13, 2019 By Matthew Hughes Last Friday, legendary MIT computer scientist Fernando “Corby” Corbató passed away at his home in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 93. The Oakland-born researcher was responsible for several pivotal advances in the computer science space, most notably the password, whi...

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freydrew Community and Advocacy Manager

Weekly Threat News: 12th July, 2019

Weekly Threat News: 12th July, 2019

Our favorite Senior Threat Researcher, @FredFunk, is back this week with another roundup of all the the cybersecurity stories you may or may not have heard of. Oh, and if you missed the #LifeatWebroot feature about Kelvin, be sure to check it out. Weaponised Hair Straighteners? Smart toilets, sm...

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diverjer New Member

Need to uninstall Webroot
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Webroot won't let me uninstall, I want to uninstall and reinstall with my CD. All it does when I try to uninstall is have me enter my password which I do, then it takes me to a web page and wants to know why I want to uninstall, I tell it and press send, then all it does is take me to another web p...

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getandgo New Member

google chrome www.directionsfound.com
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I have a popup come up in the right-hand bottom of my screen all the time. I have webroot and it doesn't seem to recognize it as a problem. how can I remove this? thank you

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Stlft New Member

troubleshooting

The problems kept on persisting just as the discussion forum mentioned with other individuals having obtuse incidents with signing in. Sorry no screenshot this time;

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mikel8742 New Member

webroot screen is blue
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webroot display screen is blue and will not scan; it just times out.

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TripleHelix Moderator

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18932 (20H1) Fast Ring

July 3, 2019 9:02 am By Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18932 (20H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. IMPORTANT: As is normal with builds early in the development cycle, these builds may contain bugs that might be...

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anthoncom New Voice

Is there a program or link that can test my Webroot Firewall
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Hello I'm looking for a program to test how good is my Webroot firewall Where can I download this program ? Thanks

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Ssherjj Moderator

Congratulations Daniel & Jeff

@TripleHelix & @Jasper_The_Rasper for being awarded another year as Microsoft Windows Insider MVP! Mostly deserved for their love and dedication to Microsoft and helping others! Great job guys! 🙃😊

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bjanway New Member

Question About Memory Leak
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An active process has a possible memory leak Chrome.exe. Is this a problem that I should worry about.

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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18362.10000 (19H2) Slow Ring

Here we go with our first 19H2 build! July 1, 2019 2:09 pm By Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are talking about the next steps we are taking at continuing to evolve Windows 10 servicing and quality with the next feature update for Windows 10. This release has been...

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avnotech New Member

Windows? IE only Temp Files
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The system analyzer always indicates "A large # of Temporary Files have been found in Windows/IE only (3945 MB)". Would this have any effect on my PC performance? If it does, what happens if I deleted them and how do I delete them - without having to read MS help for the next 2 hours?

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Jasper_The_Rasper Moderator

In Rust we trust: Brave smashes speed limit after rewriting ad-block engine in super-lang

See Google, there are other ways to run browser content blockers smartly By Thomas Claburn 28 Jun 2019 Software engineers working on the Brave browser have rewritten the browser's ad blocking engine in Rust and seen massive speed increases as a result. In a blog post on Wednesday, Brave Software p...

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kkparr33 New Member

"Optimize Now" stuck...
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When I run "Optimize Now" on my Mac, it's getting hung up at /Users/myname/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports I clear those. How do I fix this!?

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vistaboy New Member

Malware heur
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I have Webroot Secure Anytime yet I have 9000 malware heur. Whats up?

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