HighCaliber Computers, Inc.

12/01/2022

Never depend on a company for your passwords... Use a system, we can help.

LastPass is investigating a follow up incident from a breach in August that involves customer’s information.

07/26/2021

Alert, Beware of Scams

We have noticed a SHARP increase in email and phone call scams. These attacks go after your bank accounts, computer and phone accounts or attempt to get you to send money to a stranger.
Phone Scams

These days, we have to recommend you only answer phone calls from numbers you know. Calls from unknown numbers SHOULD NOT BE ANSWERED. Let them go to voice mail, if it is a real person, they will leave a message. Again, do not engage these callers, let it ring to voice mail.
Watch Out For Email Scams

Emails from Amazon or other eCommerce websites are usually helpful order confirmations. Not lately. Fake emails, that appear to come from Amazon or other online stores are appearing in user’s inboxes with strange orders and a phone number you can use to dispute the order. DO NOT CALL the number on the email. Also, DO NOT CLICK any links on the email. If you do not recognize the order, go to Amazon.com or the online store you shop at and check your account by logging in. The phone number in the fake email is to a call center who’s intention is to get your bank account. They we will try every high pressure trick in the book to get you to succumb and allow them on your computer or phone. Once you let them on, they can get all kinds of information from your device and make your life a living hell.

They also send fake emails that appear to be from popular banks. Do not click on any links or call any numbers in these emails!
Here is a recent fake email. The BLUE highlighted area shows Wells Fargo spelled with a dash and additional spacing. The real bank never does this. The YELLOW highlighted area shows an email that is not related to Wells Fargo. If it says anything other then .com, it is a scam. You can also preview the links on a computer by just placing your mouse cursor over them. DO NOT click, just place the mouse cursor over a link, a small text box will appear. If it does not end with wellsfargo.com, it is a scam. The method to preview the link on iphone or Android is problematic so you must rely on seeing the true email address the message comes from!

Too much to look at? Do nothing with the email, pull out your bank card and call the support number on it. Get to the fraud department and ask them what they think about the email. They deal with this 100 times a day and will tell you what to look for.

12/09/2020

Privacy Alert! Using Amazon Alexa or a Ring doorbell? Please know you have been opted-in to use the new Amazon SideStep, I mean Sidewalk network. I call it SideStep because the automatic opt-in for all Alexa users, sidesteps privacy concerns. You can turn it off via your Alexa App:

1. Open the Alexa app, tap More > Settings > Account Settings > Amazon Sidewalk.
2. Toggle off the Amazon Sidewalk setting, and you’re done.

11/30/2020

Cameras hidden in wall outlets should be illegal. Be careful out there folks.

11/16/2020

Apple, please find a vernacular and STICK with it!

There are no less then 5 names for the same settings depending on the IOS version you are running:

Settings
Mail > Accounts (for iOS 14), or
Passwords & Accounts (for iOS 13 or iOS 12), or
Accounts & Passwords (for iOS 11), or
Mail (for iOS 10), or
Mail, Contacts, Calendars (for iOS 9 and previous versions)

09/18/2020

Thank god.

08/05/2020

Been searching for a music player on my Android that IS NOT Google nor does it have ads. Think I found my answer: Musicolet It doesn't have internet permissions which means no data out. Privacy for the win.

06/04/2020

Performance of Graphics cards and PCIe NVMe AIC SSDs will not be limited by insufficient bandwidth...

04/07/2020

Dang twitter... Thought I heard a sucking sound.

04/03/2020

Great, now that EVERYONE is using it...

For at least a few thousand people, Zoom has treated their personal email addresses as if they all belong to the same company, letting them video call each other.

04/02/2020

I'm just saying, now is not the time for Windows Updates...

04/01/2020

So there is a commercial camera system that can read the body temperature from 12 different people at the same time. It only costs $19,999.99 to start. It can be used in hospitals and other commercial applications: https://amcrest.com/index.php/amcrest-high-sensitivity-vox-thermal-camera-system-tcs-3221-w.html