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Creates a neat translucent effect on your entire desktop and the various elements: Lucidity is a simple free desktop enhancement tool which will set a custom image as your desktop background and then allow you to change the transparency of the windows on top, creating a very nice effect reminiscent of the Gnome desktop in Linux. 0.92 MB | For Windows 7, Windows 8 (64-bit, 32-bit) / Vista /

The Ultimate Guide to Zero-Day Attacks & Exploits Daily Leave this field empty if youre human: ( Zero-Day Attacks Are Hard to Protect Against Because They Take Advantage of Previously Unknown Vulnerabilities – Learn All About Them and How to Minimize the Risks It’s finally here – the vacation you’ve been planning has arrived and it’s time to hit the road. You lock your doors and head to the airport. But a few days later, while you’re gone, a burglar decides...

Fake news gives rise to fake alerts that install phony Adobe Flash updates

Feb 18, 2021 ICT professionals, security and governance teams have a duty of care to ensure that the systems people depend on are properly patched and updated, and failure to do so might be seen as a failure of both ethics and internal controls. So says the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA), which was responding to recent breaches and glitches caused by organisations failing to keep software appropriately patched and updated. Moira de Roche, Independent con...

Microsoft force installs Windows 10 update to remove Flash Player By Microsoft is force installing a Windows 10 update that removes the embedded 32-bit version of Adobe Flash Player from the operating system. In October, we reported that Microsoft had released the KB4577586 optional update to remove the embedded 32-bit Flash Player from Windows and prevent it from being installed again. 32-bit Flash shown in Windows 10 Control Panel This update was only available from the Microsoft Catalog,...

Adobe Flash is dead and Microsoft wants all traces of it deleted.

Microsoft forcibly installs KB4577586 update to remove Flash from Windows The death of Flash has been on the cards for quite some time. What was once a staple of the online experience soon became little more than a security nightmare, and all of the major web browsers have slowly but surely dropped support for the software. Back in October, Microsoft released an update to not only remove Flash from Windows, but also prevent it from being reinstalled. Now the company is upping the ante, and is p...

Thailand’s Creeping Digital Authoritarianism Since the military coup of 2014, Thailand has developed one of the most sophisticated systems of digital surveillance in Southeast Asia. By February 17, 2021 Advertisement January saw a Thai court hand down a record-breaking 43 and a half- year sentence to a Thai woman convicted of breaking the country’s infamous lese majeste law. The court based the conviction on audio clips that the woman had posted on Facebook and Yo...

All Your Base Flash Animation Celebrates 20th Anniversary You cant watch it in its original form, but the All Your Base flash animation that inspired one of the first internet memes is now 20 years old. The iconic flash animation that popularized the garbled phrase All Your Base Are Belong To Us as a proto-meme is now 20 years old. Flash portal Newgrounds posted a tweet to celebrate two decades of All Your Base, and you can even watch it through the help of the Flash emulator Ruffle. Everyone w...

Urupong Getty / Microsoft I’m old enough to remember the screeching sound of a modem as it connected to the internet. Now we hold in our pockets more technology than I used with Netscape Navigator and Altavista to explore the World Wide Web, and web browsers have become the portal through which we access most of our critical apps and services. As we enter the era of cloud computing and the end of Adobe Flash, it’s time for enterprises to not only standardize on a web browser,...