Some technology professional I am. After spending hours troubleshooting my own home computer trying to remove some nasty malware that somehow got on there I finally through in the towel. I thought I could beat it. I’ve cleaned viruses before… it was a simple enough process in the past. Why, then, after 2 days of [...]
There is a surplus of spam right now. In August, there was a two year high of malicious spam in terms of quantity. A new post at M86 Security Labs showed this past week an average of 24% of spam volumes were considered “malicious” in nature. Basically, one in ever 4 spam emails received will [...]
We repeatedly hear the question- “Why do I need a firewall? I’m a small business and no hacker is going to come after me.” First, if you don’t know what a firewall is, its basically a small device that plugs into your network that has the sole purpose of keeping the bad guys and unwanted [...]
In light of the recent real world events that have happened over the past 24 hours keep in mind that spam and malware writers rely on compelling content or happenings to draw attention to their malevolent creations. Some insight from Symantec and Sophos (courtesy of mashable): “Within 24 hours we can expect in excess of [...]
If you are like most of us, chances are your email address and name just made it to the seedy undercurrents of the Internet this week. Epsilon, an email clearing house and large contact management firm that handles email communications for large corporations such as TiVo and Verizon had a data breach where millions of [...]
Today marks Microsoft’s final release of Internet Explorer 9, unleashing it into the wilds of the Internet. It always makes me reminisce about the “good ole days” when I remember running old school versions of Netscape (it was so exciting watching the Netscape “N” animation as I browsed the Internet). I found it funny as [...]
March is all about green. Spring arriving soon, St. Patty’s Day, the Spartans trying desperately to get to March Madness… Green, though, is all about being environmentally friendly! Let’s cut down on waste and environmental pollution. Let’s find ways to save money on utilities, overhead and even IT services. 1. Let’s go virtual! Desktop virtualization, [...]
Are you productively mobile, effectively portable and efficiently flexible? Apparently, there is like 3 feet of snow on the way to our area and the whole state is going to shutdown while we all huddle in a warm corner of our houses and await spring thaw. Fortunately, for people like me it doesn’t matter where [...]
Laptops are so 2010. Within 5 years the concept of a personal computer will go through another major evolution. Take a look at some of the best and hottest gadgets at the recent CES event and you will know what I’m talking about. Tablets galore. Everyone is trying to walk the path that Apple has [...]
Make no mistake – you have been receiving much higher quantities of spam over the past few weeks. During the holiday time from Thanksgiving to Christmas is when the volume of email spam goes up by 45%. This is the time of year when we are reminded as email users why our in-boxes are so [...]
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