Greater Cleveland PC Users Group - GCPCUG

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APCUG An international organization whose goal is to help technology groups around the world meet the needs of their members and communities.

Timely news:

Warning: CCleaner Hacked to Distribute Malware; Over 2.3 Million Users Infected Avast-owned CCleaner servers hacked to distribute malicious version (5.33) for almost a month.

Got a new computer?

8 critical things to do immediately with a new PC Quick, while it's still pure and unsullied! Here are the crucial tasks to perform on a new PC.

Way back when there were printed computer magazines, PC Magazine was required reading. Bill Machrone was part of the reason. He was a gentleman and a mensch. Bill was also a big supporter of user groups.

Remembering PCMag's Bill Machrone Remembering the former Editor-in-chief of PC Magazine.

Lots of great security tips from Consumer Reports.

66 Ways to Protect Your Privacy Right Now There’s plenty you can do to protect your privacy and prevent hackers and intrusive companies from capturing your data. Consumer Reports brings you easy, effective solutions.

Your email password is very important, here's why.

Here's why your email password is so important: Money Matters In a recent column, you said that personal email accounts in particular should have strong passwords. What information are people able to get from our personal email that would help them to commit fraud? Am I naive? (And yes -- I do have a Yahoo account and was just notified that my account might ha...

Who controls the internet?

The internet is still actually controlled by 14 people who hold 7 secret keys This sounds like something out of a Dan Brown book, but it isn't: The entire internet depends on seven highly secured keys.

Yes, the internet is under attack.

U.S. internet disrupted as firm gets hit by cyberattack Couldn't get onto some popular websites this morning? Here's what went wrong

Here's part of what you're supposed to post:

"The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. Copy and paste."

Please. Don't.

We get that you don't want Facebook to own your weird bathroom selfies, but you need to stop sharing this post.

It's not true.

Can we please stop falling for this Facebook privacy hoax? We've been debunking this hoax for SEVEN YEARS now, and here we are doing it again.

A Commodore 64 has helped run an auto shop for 25 years Apple’s Phil Schiller thinks it’s sad that people use 5-year-old computers. Well, Phil, there’s an auto repair shop in Poland that’s going to send you spiraling into a long depression. Why? Because one [...]

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