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How to Make Your Smart Home Devices Play Nicely Together
Summary Smart home devices are often incompatible with each other, but using versatile smart home hubs can help. Ecosystems such as Alexa, Google Home, or Apple Home can control different devices, but Home Assistant offers wider compatibility. Matter devices can potentially lead to fewer compatibility issues in your smart home. Smart home technology can often feel far from smart. You…
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How to set up a Google Account on Android devices
To download apps from the Play Store, check your Gmail, use Google Maps, or back up files with Google Drive, you need to add a Google Account to your Android device. Your Google Account connects you to essential services and helps sync your data across devices. This step-by-step guide shows you how to set up a Google Account on Android…
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How to switch Google Accounts on Android devices (including Samsung Galaxy)
If you use more than one Google Account, there’s no need to keep switching devices or constantly signing in and out. Android lets you switch Google Accounts right on your smartphone or tablet, allowing you to access different inboxes, photos, calendars, and more, all from the same device. Whether you’re balancing a personal and work account or managing multiple profiles…
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Why cybercriminals target Apple devices – Computerworld
About Smart Answers Smart Answers is an AI-based chatbot tool designed to help you discover content, answer questions, and go deep on the topics that matter to you. Each week we send you the three most popular questions asked by our readers, and the answers Smart Answers provides. Developed in partnership with Miso.ai, Smart Answers draws only on editorial content…
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USAID decides not to collect former workers’ abandoned devices
An email sent by USAID to workers on Thursday and obtained by The Verge says the devices will be wiped remotely, and then “marked as disposed.” Each direct hire or contractor will then be responsible for discarding the equipment. It’s unclear from the email whether the decision affects people stationed abroad or only those within the continental US. The discarded…
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Hackers are using Zoom’s remote control feature to infect devices with malware
Security experts have issued an alert over a new social engineering campaign using Zoom’s remote control features to take over victim devices. In a report from Trail of Bits, researchers attributed the campaign to a cyber criminal group known as ‘Elusive Comet’, which attempted to target the company’s CEO on social media. The campaign in question centers around abusing the…
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Edge devices are now your weakest link: VPNs, firewalls, and routers were the leading source of initial compromise in 30% of incidents last year – here’s why
Compromised network edge devices have rapidly emerged as one of the biggest attack points for small and medium businesses, prompting calls for firms to shore up defenses. Statistics from Sophos’ Annual Threat Report show firewalls, routers, and VPNs accounted for initial compromise in nearly 30% of all incidents observed by the firm over the last year. Virtual private networks (VPNs)…
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Intune flaw pushed Windows 11 upgrades on blocked devices
Microsoft has blamed a “code issue” for Windows 11 being offered to devices that weren’t supposed to have it after a flaw in a device management tool. Reports suggest that Intune, Microsoft’s software for managing enterprise devices, had a “latent code issue” that upgraded devices despite policies that should have blocked that from happening. In a post for admins, Microsoft…
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SonicWall SMA VPN devices targeted in attacks since January
A remote code execution vulnerability affecting SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances has been under active exploitation since at least January 2025, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf. This security flaw (CVE-2021-20035) impacts SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, and SMA 500v devices and was patched almost four years ago, in September 2021, when SonicWall said it could…
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You need to update your Apple devices immediately – Computerworld
Things are getting serious regarding Apple security. This shouldn’t really surprise you, given the normalization of chaos we’re enduring, as confusion always makes people more vulnerable. It’s easier to be hoodwinked into clicking that particular malware link when your head’s all over the place, you can’t think, and you don’t know whether you’ll still be in business tomorrow. That’s because threats…
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