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Can I Hook Up a Generator Directly to My House?

Can I Hook Up a Generator Directly to My House? – By How-To Geek How-To Geek
Improperly hooking up your generator can burn your house down or kill line workers. A properly connected generator has safety mechanisms to prevent both outcomes.
It might be tempting to hook a generator directly up to your home’s electrical system during a power outage, but there’s a right and wrong way to do it. And the wrong way can cause fires and even kill people, so it’s best to read up about the matter in advance.

 

Email-based scams are on the rise.

Email-based scams are on the rise.

With billions of emails sent globally each day, it’s no wonder that email compromise has become one of the largest and most financially damaging online crimes. In an email-based scam, fraudsters send an email that appears to come from a known or reputable source with a legitimate request, such as updating a mailing address or payment instructions.

Stay aware of email-based scams involving home purchases.

We’ve noticed a recent increase in email-based scams for homebuyers. In this scenario, a person is purchasing property and receives authentic instructions from the title company about wiring funds, followed by updated wiring instructions from the fraudster. Fraudsters are able to accomplish this because they have compromised the client’s or title company’s email.

To carry out an email compromise scam, fraudsters will often:

  • Create a fake email account or website: Slight variations of legitimate email and website addresses, such as one including slight misspellings, can make fake accounts appear authentic.
  • Send spearphishing emails: These messages, which seem like they’re from a trusted sender, can cause victims to reveal confidential information and result in criminals accessing personal or business accounts, calendars, and data to carry out schemes.
  • Use malware: Malicious software also lets criminals gain control of mobile phones and personal computers, which provides them undetected access to confidential data, such as passwords and financial account information.

Here are five steps you can take to protect yourself:

Set up two-factor (or multi-factor) authentication on any account that allows it.
Be careful with the information you share online and the details others share about you online. Scammers often use personal or common information, such as pet names, schools you attended, links to family members, and your birthday, to send phishing emails, guess your password or answer your security questions.
Think before clicking or downloading. Don’t click on anything in an unsolicited email, text, social media, or messaging application message asking you to update or verify account information. Never open an email attachment from someone you don’t know, and be wary of email attachments forwarded to you.
Verify email addresses. Carefully examine the email address, URL address, and spelling used in emails or text messages. Scammers use slight differences to trick your eye and gain your trust.
Compare the From address to the Reply-To address. Scammers are sometimes able to spoof a legitimate email address. Before sending a reply, confirm that the reply-to email address is accurate.

Last Pass Security Incident Notice

Last Pass Security Incident Notice

Dear valued customer,

In keeping with our commitment to transparency, we wanted to inform you of a security incident that our team is currently investigating.

We recently detected unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service, which is currently shared by both LastPass and its affiliate, GoTo. We immediately launched an investigation, engaged Mandiant, a leading security firm, and alerted law enforcement.

We have determined that an unauthorized party, using information obtained in the August 2022 incident, was able to gain access to certain elements of our customers’ information. Our customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.

We are working diligently to understand the scope of the incident and identify what specific information has been accessed. As part of our efforts, we continue to deploy enhanced security measures and monitoring capabilities across our infrastructure to help detect and prevent further threat actor activity. In the meantime, we can confirm that LastPass products and services remain fully functional. As always, we recommend that you follow our best practices around the setup and configuration of LastPass, which can be found here.

As is our practice, we will continue to provide updates as we learn more. Please visit the LastPass blog for the latest information related to the incident: https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/11/notice-of-recent-security-incident/.

We thank you for your patience while we work through our investigation.

Sincerely,
The Team at LastPass

How to Set Up Your LastPass Account

How to Set Up Your New LastPass Account – by LastPass

Suppose you are looking for a simple way to protect your privacy and secure your online accounts. In that case, password security is a great place to start, lots of breaches involve compromised credentials, and most involve a human element. If a bad actor can guess or steal just one of your passwords, they may be able to use it to get into your other accounts.


How is LastPass safe? – by LastPass


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How to Move a Table in Google Docs

How to Move a Table in Google Docs – By How-To Geek How-To Geek

Select a table in the document with your mouse, and then click and drag it to move it. You can also right-click the table and Cut it, and then Paste it in the location you want to move it to. Modify the table’s properties to adjust its alignment.
Tables enable you to structure data efficiently in a report, essay, or research paper. However, after you create a table, you may realize you need to move it elsewhere. We’ll show how to move a table in Google Docs.

Core i3 Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5i $269

Massive deal brings the Core i3 Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5i to an even crazier $269 – By Robby Payne chromeunboxed.com

For the third time in a week, we find ourselves talking about the relatively pedestrian Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5i. Don’t get me wrong: this Chromebook is solid and nice to use, but when it was released, the improvements over the original Flex 5 were fine, but nothing truly noteworthy. After all, the build quality is largely the same, the color change is welcome but not game-changing, and the upgraded internals make things a bit faster but likely go a bit unnoticed to the average consumer.

Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid

Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid – By Dan Goodin Ars Technica
If you’ve ever worried about the privacy of your sensitive data when seeking a computer or phone repair, a new study suggests you have good reason. It found that privacy violations occurred at least 50 percent of the time, not surprisingly with female customers bearing the brunt.

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