Yesterday (11-Nov-2014) was patch Tuesday and Microsoft released 14 security bulletins. As is typical, each bulletin describes one or more vulnerabilities in one or more Microsoft products. One of these bulletins, MS14-066, looks to be extraordinarily important as it describes a vulnerability that can be exploited by a malicious actor simply by sending carefully designed […]
MS14-066 is a critical security update for Windows servers – patch as soon as possible
November 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
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File Sync (e.g. Dropbox) is NOT Backup
October 5, 2014 By 2 Comments
Recently, friend and WordPress developer par excellence Bradley Charbonneau at Likoma penned a piece about how Dropbox has allowed him to do away with his backup application. File synchronization applications like Dropbox are a huge boon to those of us who have multiple devices. Being able to access the same set of files across all your […]
[ALERT] Heartbleed – What to do and what NOT to do
April 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Late on April 7 news came out that a key piece of software used by a majority of websites for secure transmission of information including logon passwords was broken. Since that time websites and organizations have been scrambling to put in place a fix. For the majority of major websites that work has been […]
Protect yourself & your data – think before you click!
September 11, 2013 By 2 Comments
We all know we should be very careful before clicking on links in email or opening mail attachments; but today we found out this advice is more important than ever. There is a particularly nasty piece of malware (malicious software) making the rounds that can render all of your files unreadable through encryption. The malware (dubbed CryptoLocker, […]
If you use LinkedIn change your password today!
June 6, 2012 By 2 Comments
Summary I just changed my LinkedIn password and here is why. Word came out this morning that a large number of LinkedIn accounts had passwords leaked to the internet. If you use LinkedIn please change your password for that service today. If you use the same password on any other online accounts change the password […]
A Windows Security Update You MUST Install (KB2621440)
March 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Every second Tuesday of the month Microsoft publishes a set of security bulletins along with security updates (patches) that address the flaws described in the bulletins. Every IT gal and guy knows this, so we simply build in the security update review and deployment process into our planned maintenance schedule. Sometimes, however, a security bulletin makes […]
Phone scams – the home computer connection
March 7, 2012 By 2 Comments
Do you give out personal information to people you don’t know when they call you? Neither do I! That is why you should take special care if you receive a call out of the blue telling you there is a problem with your PC and offering to fix it. For some time now scammers have […]
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