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I’ve long recommended that small business owners and others concerned about malware-driven bank account takeovers consider adopting a “Live CD” solution, which is a free and relatively easy way of ...

This article highlights the issues that older computer systems will encounter when the Secure Boot Certificate expires ...

Most PCs should continue working fine, even if they don't receive the updated certificates.

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