November 15, 2013 · Cybersecurity & Malware
When we think “hacker”, nine times out of ten , we think of someone who is using their gift for something that could be potentially malicious or using their gift to further their own gain. Hacking has been around for a while, though, and has even become so popular that it has been featured in
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October 30, 2013 · Business IT Tips
By Donna Essex Small businesses are holding more confidential information on their computers than ever before. As their businesses expand, just how safe are the documents and data stored on their computers? With customer confidentiality at the hands of a business, it is mandatory that data security be brought in to pro
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September 30, 2013 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
As of Wednesday, there has been a breakthrough in the nanotechnology world. A group of researchers from Stanford University have created the first working carbon nanotube computer. If you are wondering what nanotechnology is, you are certainly not alone. Nanotechnology is a section of technology for anything less than
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June 24, 2013 · Cybersecurity & Malware
Who’s Reading Your Emails? Today we all use either texting or emails far more than we use letter writing to communicate with our friends and relatives. In business the use of email is ubiquitous, and seems to grow exponentially each year. Sooner or later someone in your company will raise the question regarding the amo
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May 2, 2013 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
You get 6 Strike with the CAS Umpire The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have ‘agreements‘ with five major ISPs—AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon—to create a new organization called the CCI. CCI is the Center for Copyright Inf
Read more →April 24, 2013 · Computer Service Now News
Western Digital jumps into the hybrid hard drive market with both feet. Western Digital’s hybrid hard drive is a slim 2.5-inch SSHD designed for Ultrabooks and other thin devices. However, Western Digital is not ditching traditional hard drives. SSHD will be marketed as part of WD’s Black Series, while plain HDDs will
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April 2, 2013 · Cybersecurity & Malware
Anonymous seems to have a little bit of a grudge against North Korea, but honestly, who can blame them? This time the hacktivists took to the country’s Twitter and Flickr pages to express their displeasure with North Korea, citing the threat posted by the country’s government. The Twitter feed of the country showed a s
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March 26, 2013 · Cybersecurity & Malware
South Korea was recently hit by a cyberattack and security vendors have been given the task of investigating. Vendors analyzing the code have begun to find some particularly dangerous components to the attack that were specifically designed to wreak complete and total havoc on the infected computers. Deep inside the Wi
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March 19, 2013 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Hackers and and other cybercriminals are getting smarter by the minute, finding new and improved ways to give you a bad day with the press of a button. Thankfully, companies that are typically targeted by these hackers and cybercriminals are getting smarter too. New research shows that the number of companies purchasin
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March 12, 2013 · Business IT Tips
McAfee has enhanced its business security platform by adding almost real-time querying capabilities to its ePolicy Orchestrator software and also by integrating it with its security information and event management (SIEM) product, allowing it to automatically initiate endpoint security policy changes, not to mention th
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March 6, 2013 · Business IT Tips
Think about your office and the people you have sitting behind the computers. Or think about your remote workforce in their home offices or on the road with their laptops and mobile devices gripped firmly in their hands. Whether you realize it or not, all of these workers play a vital role in protecting your
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Oracle recently discovered that hackers have been exploiting two different vulnerabilities in Java running in web browsers and, in response, has issued an emergency patch that should be capable of dealing with the problem. According to a security alert released by Oracle, “These vulnerabilities may be remotely exploita
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February 12, 2013 · Microsoft, Windows & Software
Microsoft recently patched a total of 14 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer as it prepares the browser for its time as a target at next month’s annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. Microsoft recently patched 57 vulnerabilities, including 14 affecting Internet Explorer, that were delivered in two separate security updates.
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November 21, 2012 · Cybersecurity & Malware
Typical cyberattack stories these days, at least ones involving the United States, are usually about some other country or mysterious hacker trying to access the U.S. networks. However, the United States has been accused of launching its very own cyberattack against none other than France, a claim that the U.S. Governm
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November 15, 2012 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Mozilla recently introduced a pre-loaded list of domains for Firefox that can only be connected to securely in order to help protect the privacy and security of Firefox users. Mozilla is using HSTS in order to force secure connections between the browser and a server. HSTS, or HTTP Strict Transport Security, is a mecha
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