More than half of U.S. employees (56%) currently use personal file sharing systems such as OneDrive, Google Drive, WhatsApp or Dropbox for work-related file sharing to make things easier for them—regardless of whether they are allowed to, a new study finds. Further, a third of those employees (32%) do it...
How to Make a PDF Searchable
Many PDF files these days are not searchable, making it hard to find specific text in a document. Fortunately, several online tools let you make a PDF searchable with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology and text recognition. These tools are free with limited features but are more affordable than costly...
How to remove your saved passwords in Chrome
For the longest time, I’ve been shouting to the sun and moon that no one should allow Chrome to save passwords. Given that almost monthly Google releases an announcement saying that users are strongly urged to upgrade to the latest version of Chrome (to avoid security issues), why would you...
HTML Attachments Found to be the Most Malicious Type of File
Users of email have long thought of executable and .dll attachments as the main focus when cyberattacks arise, but there may be another type of highly used malicious file to be aware of. According to a recent study, HTML attachments are being employed by adversaries the most when it comes...
How to Resolve Search Problems in Microsoft Outlook
You’re searching for certain messages in Microsoft Outlook by specific criteria. You know there should be results for your search, but no messages are appearing. The search feature for Outlook does sometimes misbehave, causing it to fail to find the right results — or any results at all. Fortunately, there...