By all means, practice safe computing (loads of advice throughout my library), and use prudent protection on your computers. It’s not a perfect system, but better than leaving your system wide-open to threats. Consider this, the pace of computer and device hacking has ramped up to critical levels, and your only protection is keeping up-to-date on your hardware/firmware and software. There are valid reasons for some folks to defer updating specific things, but for the most part, the security fixes outweigh the potential for problems for most consumers. For Android users, you may or may not get updates to Android depending on your handset manufacturer and your cellular carrier. That includes iOS, WatchOS and MacOS from Apple, Windows Update from Microsoft, firmware updates from your computer manufacturer, and all your installed software.
Senior Moment: Updates All software and hardware developers are issuing updates hot and heavy, I think for most people it’s prudent to just install them as they are made available. Here’s the latest consumer tech news for this week & info we think you should know (updated continuously).
