How to Disable SMBv1 and Protect Your Windows PC From Attack

Did You Know? The elementary school setting of the 1999 survival-horror PlayStation game Silent Hill is a subtle homage to the set of the 1990 film Kindergarten Cop. The school in the video game includes numerous replications of posters, doorways, cabinets, and other references that correspond directly to the set of the film. Geek Trivia When You See New Growth Rising Out Of An Old Tree Stump, You’re Seeing A? Basal Shoot → Ghost Growth → Lazarus Leg → Runner → Advertisement Download Free eBook IT Security 101 Think Like a Cybercriminal Establishing an effective IT security system is a complex undertaking made even more difficult by the threat of new and unknown cybercriminal behavior.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Sync Your Android Notifications to Your PC or Mac How to Report a Whole Facebook Group How to Disable SMBv1 and Protect Your Windows PC From Attack What Does the Builtin Command in Bash Do? How to Enable Automatic Firmware Updates for Your Wink Hub How to Find You Wi-Fi Connected Roomba When It Gets Lost Is Now a Good Time to Buy an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive? How to Build Your Own NES or SNES Classic with a Raspberry Pi and RetroPie The Best Tools for Editing Pictures on a Chromebook What Is a Macro Lens in Photography? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term FTA FTA (short for Failure To Acquire) is a term used to describe a biometric system’s failure to capture and/or extract usable (identifying) information from a biometric sample. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. The Enduring Legacy of Zork The innovative text-adventure game still influences technologists 40 years after its creation. [MIT Technology Review] Google tested its AI by having it fine tune chocolate chip cookie recipes Tweaking cookie recipes (and learning from your mistakes) is surprisingly educational. [Quartz] Spyware backdoor prompts Google to pull 500 apps with >100m downloads Google killed secret plugin download capability after being alerted by researchers. [ArsTechnica] How to Sync Your Android Notifications to Your PC or Mac If you’re working at your computer and your phone goes off, you can grab it, unlock it, and check the notification, likely throwing off your workflow. Or, you could just sync your notifications to your computer, so they show up right there—which really makes a lot more sense. Read This Article → How to Report a Whole Facebook Group Facebook is a great tool, but it isn't without its issues. Anyone can create a Facebook Group for any purpose. While lots of sports teams and clubs use Groups to organize things, there are also Groups that are used to coordinate abuse, sell illegal substances, and generally just violate Facebook's Terms of Service. If you find one, here's how to report it to Facebook. Read This Article → How to Disable SMBv1 and Protect Your Windows PC From Attack The WannaCry and Petya ransomware epidemics both spread using flaws in the ancient SMBv1 protocol, which Windows still enables by default (for some ridiculous reason). Whether you’re using Windows 10, 8, or 7, you should ensure SMBv1 is disabled on your PC. Read This Article → What Does the Builtin Command in Bash Do? The builtin commands in Bash can be extremely useful, but what does “builtin” itself actually do? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Enable Automatic Firmware Updates for Your Wink Hub Firmware updates are annoying, but they’re essential to a properly working (and secure) device. The Wink Hub is no exception, but if you’d rather not have to deal with updating the hub every time new firmware comes out, you can actually enable automatic updates. Read This Article → How to Find You Wi-Fi Connected Roomba When It Gets Lost If you leave your Roomba to do its thing unattended—which is the whole point, after all—every once in a while it can get stuck in a corner or under furniture. If you can’t figure out where it went, and you have a Wi-Fi connected model, you can ring it from the app to help you track it down. Read This Article → Is Now a Good Time to Buy an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive? The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the only retail-available VR headsets to use conventional gaming PCs as a platform, have been on the market for over a year. That’s long enough for fans to wonder when new models will be coming out…and long enough for sellers to want to move some of the existing stock. So, is it a good time to dive head-first into virtual reality? Read This Article → How to Build Your Own NES or SNES Classic with a Raspberry Pi and RetroPie The NES Classic Edition is an official clone of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, and one of the best ways to play your favorite retro games. The SNES Classic is its successor. Unfortunately, it’s so popular that it’s nearly impossible to get your hands on either. Don’t pay $300 on eBay when you can use the modestly-priced Raspberry Pi to build your own—with even more games. Read This Article → The Best Tools for Editing Pictures on a Chromebook Chromebooks have long been touted as great machines for users who “don’t need anything more than a browser.” But as time has gone on, the machines have gotten more powerful, with more program options are available than ever before. If you thought editing photos from a Chromebook wasn’t possible, it’s time to give it another look. Read This Article → What Is a Macro Lens in Photography? A macro lens is a lens designed for taking extremely close-up photos of the subject. If you've ever seen a photo of a spider's eyes or the veins of a leaf, that was a macro photo. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook IT Security 101 Think Like a Cybercriminal Establishing an effective IT security system is a complex undertaking made even more difficult by the threat of new and unknown cybercriminal behavior.Click here to download