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This 28-inch Samsung 4K monitor is surprisingly cheap

November 2, 2022/in Internet Security

A dead pixel, monitor stains that just won’t come clean, and a work week filled with staring at the old work-from-home laptop probably has you jumping to get something new and fresh to feast your eyes on. Best Buy fully understands and has some limited time monitor deals to get your eyes back in gear. For now, let’s look at the Samsung 28-inch 4K UHD UR55 monitor, on sale now for just $230. That’s a markdown of $120 off the typical price of $350. There’s also some bonus free software bundled into your purchase.

Why you should buy the Samsung 28-inch UR55 4K monitor

Right off the bat, the Samsung UR55’s 28-inch display is giving you a couple of extra inches from the 24-inch recommended minimum from our computer monitor buying guide. That’s great news if you need a bit of extra space to keep that Teams tab open in the corner while you work, or just like a messy desktop. Packed in that 28-inch screen is over 8 million pixels that deliver full UHD resolution. On top of all of this, the Samsung UR55 has HDR to bring rich darks and brilliant lights to your screen. This, along with the IPS panel, promotes vividness and color accuracy across your full screen — despite the price, this monitor will be great for editing!

Lastly, let’s talk about the add-ons that you get completely free with the Samsung UR55. First, you’ll get access to Trend Micro Internet Security for six months, which we’ve included among our best antivirus software picks for 2022 due to its great identity protection tools. You’ll also get a chance to try out YouTube Premium for three months if you’re a new subscriber. That’s a total value of $30 given to you for free!

Ready to take advantage of all this? Good, because it is on sale now at Best Buy for just $230, a full $120 off the usual cost of $350. Plus, when you buy now, you’re free to return any time up to January 14, 2023, so the risks are low. We’re unsure of when this deal will end, so it is best to act now.

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Toronto posts new request for private security firm to ‘patrol and monitor’ parks – Toronto

August 28, 2022/in Mobile Security

The City of Toronto is once again petitioning for private security companies to patrol its parks and investigate “possible attempted encampments, safety hazards and criminal activity.”

The new posting comes after an attempt in May to find a company to provide security at municipal parks failed.

The city came under fire from some earlier this year when it put out a request for proposals (RFP) to find private security firms to prevent encampments in parks.

That RFP failed to draw qualified bidders, the city said, with two companies given short-term, non-competitive contracts to provide the service.

During the spring, the city awarded two short-term contracts to patrol parks including Trinity Bellwoods Park, Lamport Stadium Park, Alexandra Park and Dufferin Grove.

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“The current parks security contracts with Logix Security Inc. and Valguard Security Inc. for $500,000 each began on April 13, 2022, and are temporary interim contracts to provide parks security until the contract associated with the RFP can be awarded,” a spokesperson for the City of Toronto said.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, large encampments formed across parks in Toronto as homeless people said they felt the shelters weren’t safe and feared contracting the virus.

Lamport Stadium and Trinity Bellwoods were both sites that saw many structures and tents. The City of Toronto was criticized for the tactics police officers used to clear the encampments.

An RFP for security services to patrol city parks closed on May 30, 2022, but none of the bidders met Toronto’s criteria, the city said.

The new RFP, posted on Wednesday, says Toronto is looking to retain a company that will offer security guard services at parks around the city.

First look at Portmaster, an open source cross-platform network monitor

May 17, 2022/in Internet Security

Portmaster is a free open source cross-platform network activity monitor that is available in an early version for Windows and the Linux distributions Ubuntu and Fedora.

Portmaster combines traditional network activity monitoring with additional features, such as the option to enforce the use of secure DNS or the automatic blocking of advertisement, trackers and malicious hosts using filter lists, which are commonly used by ad-blockers.

Portmaster is free to use, which usually leads to the question of how development is financed. The developers behind Portmaster reveal information on that on the official project website. Basically, what they plan to do is use a freemium model. Portmaster will be free for all users but extra services, a VPN is mentioned specifically, is available for users who sign-up for it. Money is earned through that, which is used to finance development.

Portmaster: first look

An alpha version of Portmaster is available for Windows and Linux. It is released for testing and development purposes at the time. Alpha software may include bugs and issues, and should not be installed on production machines.

The development team notes that the alpha tag is “more about missing features than instability” of the application. Planned features for the first beta release include importing and exporting options, support for custom filter lists, cryptographically signed updates, and a full-device network monitor.

Installation is straightforward on Windows; a reboot is required to complete the installation process. The interface is well-designed and modern. The main page lists recent network activity, including the total number of connections, and the percentage of allowed and blocked connections.

A click on an application or service in the network activity listing displays details, including name and path, and information about each connection that was made in the past.

Each connection is listed with the target, whether the data was encrypted, the IP addresses and countries of the IP addresses.

Settings can be defined for each individual application. Besides blocking all network activity, users may modify several connection specific options. To name a few:

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Has your baby monitor been hacked by cybercrooks?

March 8, 2022/in Computer Security

High-tech baby monitors could be hacked by cybercrooks, whose aim is to use them as entry points to other devices.

One would think the bed of a family’s most vulnerable member — a baby — would be safe from cybercrooks wanting to steal personal data.

Well, that’s not true.

FortiGuard Labs, which operates a cybersecurity data centre in Burnaby, has found at least one baby monitor that has crawled into cribs.

“In September 2021, we noticed attacks attempting to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability in Motorola’s Halo+ Baby Monitor,” the company said in its Global Threat Landscape Report released in February. “The attacks that followed allowed actors into one of the most intimate parts of people’s homes via full access to the baby monitor’s display device, camera, accompanying app, and data shared between the devices.”

Derek Manky, FortiGuard’s chief security strategist and vice-president of global threat intelligence, said the issue resonates on the privacy protection front.

“It’s a baby monitor today; what’s tomorrow?” he asked.

The Motorola model had a remote access flaw, the reported noted.

One might argue it’s just a baby monitor and that the baby has nothing to hide.

But Manky said the monitor could be used as a jumping-off point; crooks use it to gain access to other home devices that are connected across the home computer network. The cyber expert pointed to phones, watches, fridges, toys, medical sensors and doorbells being hacked.

With the surge in home-based work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of home devices has also surged, broadening what is known as the “attack surface” that cybercrooks can target, Manky added.

Manky stressed not using default passwords on such devices. Change them, he said.

And make sure companies providing such devices have software upgrades and patches to fix vulnerabilities fraudsters can use to get into your home systems.

One thing people can do is use the segmented zones on routers. Use a variety of zones to isolate your devices, he explained.

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