In this repair guide we will show you how to dis-assemble the Samsung 920N /920NW monitors and repair a power supply board that has failed. Both the 920N and 920NW use the same power supply board, one has the audio amplifier and the other does not but the power supply is the same. The board is part number ILPI-036 also shown as 79097140 rev A has the audio and rev B does not. If you have one of these monitors with no display, a flashing power light, a wavy picture or it takes a while to show a picture when you first turn it on then this guide will show you how to repair your monitor. Read more

If you are a customer of the web shopping site WWW.ZAPPOS.COM then you need to change your password. Late Sunday night the online retailer posted a notice stating that they had a security breach and that the account information for 24 million customers had been accessed but that the account data did not include credit card information. Zappos has stated that the passwords accessed on their site were encrypted but did not give any more information about how. The company is working with law enforcement to investigate the breach. They are requiring all returning customers to change their passwords. Read more

A new Facebook Phishing scan was detected by the Kaspersky security today. This new threat is being used to not only compromise your login credentials but to also try and steal your credit card information by posing as a notice from Facebook security. The message states that your account may have been hacked and that they need to verify your login information to prevent your account from being closed. The cyber criminals are using the reasoning that you “want to keep you account open” so you will follow the link. (Based on past Facebook scam success, they would be correct in assuming this.) Read more

Samsung released SwipeIt as a direct competitor to Apple’s Airplay system. The Samsung smart TV app started being pushed to internet connected TV around the 1st so it should already be on your system. The Android app is already in the app market. With this new service you can view pictures and video directly from your Android phone to your Samsung TV over WiFi, just swipe and view.
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Happy Birthday Commodore 64. Its hard to believe but it was 30 years ago, January 1982 that the commodore 64 was introduced at the consumer electronics show. How many of us had our first computer experience with this machine? Read more

Security research company Seculert has been tracking a new variant of the Ramnit worm. The original Ramnit worm has been around for over a year and was designed to steal FTP credentials and cookies stored on your PC. The second version discovered in August of last year was set on obtaining your financial information such as bank logins and account number. Symantec stated in a PDF file last July that oproximatly 17.3% of machine infections could be traced to the Ramnit worm. Over the period of September to December 2011 they tracked the worm on over 800,000 machines. The worm has now taken on a new persona, it now is out to steal your Facebook credentials. Read more