If your typical New Year’s resolutions lasted about 30 seconds, you’re not alone. Pledges to eat better, start running and learn how to juggle can be rebooted again next year easy enough. This year, we challenge you to think about your tech health with some resolutions you’ll want to keep.
A few weeks ago, it was revealed that pretty much all modern CPUs designed after 1995 suffer from a major design defect that can be used to create critical vulnerabilities. Existence of vulnerability doesn’t mean there is a way to exploit it for malicious purposes; however, I wouldn’t be surprised if something is invented soon… the cybercriminals won’t miss their chance to create malware that could potentially attack most computers.
I recently got a few older Macbooks from customers who upgraded to newer computers and wanted to make them as fast as possible for those who don’t mind using older computers. The laptops I got are white Macbooks from 2007-2009 era, with very modest specifications, like Core 2 Duo CPU, 2 GB of RAM, and mechanical drives. All had bad batteries but that’s not surprising considering their age!
Тhe files you store on your computers and phones are invaluable. It will cost you time and effort re-create it, and that costs money or at least personal grief and tears; sometimes it can’t even be re-created – such as pictures from your childhood, school graduation, vacations, your baby’s birth and first steps, and other significant milestones. If your computer crashes, the house gets robbed, or you become a victim of viruses and crooks, you risk losing it all! Are you prepared for it?
