CCleaner Was Hacked: What You Need to Know

Did You Know? The hottest rainfall ever recorded fell on Needles, California on August 13, 2012 during a heatwave. The air temperature was 118°F (47.8°C) and the rain temperature was measured at 115°F (46.1°C). Due to the high air temperature and the very low ambient humidity (only 11 percent), the hot rain evaporated almost instantly. Geek Trivia A Popular African-Derived Rhythm Used In Rock and Pop Music Is Called The? Jackson Pop → Amen Break → Bo Diddley Beat → Funkadelic Drop → Advertisement Download Learn Linux in 5 Days In this eBook, you will learn the most important concepts and commands, and be guided step-by-step through several practical and real-world examples. As new concepts, commands, or jargon are encountered they are explained in plain language, making it easy to understand. The most important material is condensed into five sections, each designed to be consumed in a day.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 Save Google’s WEBP Images As JPEG or PNG CCleaner Was Hacked: What You Need to Know How to Make Windows 10’s Taskbar Clock Display Seconds How to Boost Your Mouse Pointing Accuracy in Windows The Best Ways to Control All Your Smarthome Devices from One Place How to Make Sure a File Is Safe Before Downloading It How to Manually and Automatically Shut Down and Restart Your Synology NAS How to Use Your Ecobee Smart Thermostat with Alexa Stupid Geek Tricks: Convince Your Friends You’re a Hollywood-Style Hacker with These Tools Lease vs Finance vs Buy: How Should You Pay for the iPhone 8 or X? How Much Better Is the iPhone X's Camera? How to Revoke Third-Party App Permissions From Spotify Does Wireless Charging Work with a Case? How to Find Out What Places Are a Specific Distance From You How Does Wireless Charging Work? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term IPC IPC (short for Interprocess Communication) is an operating system mechanism that allows one process to communicate/interact with another process to exchange data or for one application to control another (whether running on the same or different computers). 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 New Neil Armstrongs Space exploration used to be the playground of pilots. It was tactile, and it was going places we could see, like the moon. So what happens when the new frontier is beyond most people's comprehension? Meet two scientists whose work is taking greater leaps than Neil Armstrong. [The Ringer] What Is CamperForce? Amazon's Nomadic Retiree Army Increasingly, Amazon is employing an army of older and nomadic workers to meet seasonal demands. [Wired] How to Save Google’s WEBP Images As JPEG or PNG Google’s new WEBP image format is pretty cool: its unique compression systems can display images at approximately two thirds the size of the same image rendered in JPEG or PNG format. Read This Article → CCleaner Was Hacked: What You Need to Know CCleaner, the incredibly popular PC maintenance utility, has been hacked to include malware. Here’s how to tell if you were affected, and what you should do. Read This Article → How to Make Windows 10’s Taskbar Clock Display Seconds Windows 10’s taskbar clock can display the precise time down to the second. This feature requires a registry hack to enable, and only works on Windows 10. Windows 7 users will instead need a third-party utility like T-Clock Redux to do this instead. Read This Article → How to Boost Your Mouse Pointing Accuracy in Windows From Enhance Pointer Precision to DPI and pointer speed, there are a lot of options that affect how your mouse pointer moves in Windows. The below tips will help you move your mouse pointer more accurately—and even allow you to move it pixel by pixel. Read This Article → The Best Ways to Control All Your Smarthome Devices from One Place The more smarthome products you pile onto your house, the more complicated it gets to integrate all of them together and seamlessly control them. If you’re in this situation, here are the best ways you can control all of your smarthome devices. Read This Article → How to Make Sure a File Is Safe Before Downloading It If you’re concerned a file might be malicious, you don’t need to download it and rely on your antivirus. You can scan the file for malware with over 60 antivirus engines before you download it—all with one single tool. Read This Article → How to Manually and Automatically Shut Down and Restart Your Synology NAS There’s more than one way to shutdown and restart your Synology NAS, including physical interaction with the NAS, software, and scheduled events. Let’s look at all three methods now. Read This Article → How to Use Your Ecobee Smart Thermostat with Alexa Controlling your smart thermostat remotely from your phone is cool and all, but don’t forget that you can also make it even easier on yourself and control it with your voice using Alexa. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article → Stupid Geek Tricks: Convince Your Friends You’re a Hollywood-Style Hacker with These Tools Hacking in the movies is crazy exciting: fingers fly across the keyboard, and the screen is an ever flashing array of cryptic characters. It’s all so…interesting. Real hacking, sadly, isn’t that intense. However illegal what you’re doing may be, you’re still just someone sitting at a computer. Most the time you’re just trying to get people to use a fake Google sign-in page. Read This Article → Lease vs Finance vs Buy: How Should You Pay for the iPhone 8 or X? Another year, another new iPhone, and it’s time to wade through the mess of confusing financing plans, early upgrades, and pay-to-own schemes. All the different prices, plans, and carriers supporting the iPhone are enough to make our heads spin, so we’re here to help you decide whether it’s better to lease or own. Read This Article → How Much Better Is the iPhone X's Camera? While the iPhone X’s design is its biggest talking point, the thing that really caught my eye watching the announcement was the new camera. Read This Article → How to Revoke Third-Party App Permissions From Spotify Internet music service Spotify offers an API that lets other websites and applications access your music and customer data. That can be a really cool feature if you’re using it to integrate music with other tools, like Shazam or Sonos. But, when you’re finished with whatever you’re doing, it’s probably a good idea to restrict access to only the most essential apps. Here’s how you do it. Read This Article → Does Wireless Charging Work with a Case? With wireless charging making its way into the new iPhones, there are undoubtedly a lot of questions floating around about how this technology works in practical application. The biggest question I’ve heard so far is: will it work with a case? Read This Article → How to Find Out What Places Are a Specific Distance From You Sometimes you want to find out what's within a certain number of miles of a specific location. Maybe you want to know what area a cell tower covers or what would happen if a nuclear bomb got dropped on your in-laws' house. Read This Article → How Does Wireless Charging Work? Wireless charging is set to become more popular with the adoption of Qi wireless charging in Apple’s iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X. It’s also found on some Android phones, like Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8, and Galaxy S7. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Learn Linux in 5 Days In this eBook, you will learn the most important concepts and commands, and be guided step-by-step through several practical and real-world examples. As new concepts, commands, or jargon are encountered they are explained in plain language, making it easy to understand. The most important material is condensed into five sections, each designed to be consumed in a day.Click here to download