If you have issues with your business computer systems, who do you call? If you are calling a one-man-shop, you may be getting a great deal in terms of hourly rates, however, you may find that the wait for this one person to finally get around to you could lead to inconvenient downtime. Unfortunately, the better the technician, the more …
SECURE IT ALERT: “Here You Have” Email Contains Fake and Malicious PDF or WMV Links
Homeland Secure IT Alert for September 10th, 2010 Making the news this week has been dire warnings of a rapidly spreading email worm. While it appears to be nothing more than we have seen in the past, I have reposted a security alert from Watchguard, makers of a great firewall devices and security appliances. — Supposedly Wide-Spread Email …
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Are you overlooking a notebook computer backup plan?
I hate to keep beating this dead horse, but a dear friend called this morning as I was on my way in to the office, telling how his notebook computer had experienced a totally depleted battery over the weekend and that when he tried to bring it back up, he got the dreaded blue screen of death… This was followed …
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Thinking of buying computer hardware or software “Dirt Cheap?” Read this first…
I’m sure you have heard the old adage “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is…” In the case of computers, servers, firewalls, VoIP equipment, Microsoft, Adobe and other hardware / software, that has always been true. For example: We have one client who purchased Microsoft Office Professional 2003 a number of years ago on the cheap. …
Are you spending too much on your Cisco SMARTnet, Trend Micro, Symantec or Microsoft Licensing?
If you own or maintain your own business phone or computer network, you are probably renewing your licensing yearly for everything from your Cisco VoIP phone system & ASA 5500 network security appliances to Trend Micro Worry Free Business Security, Trend Office Scan, to Microsoft Software Assurance or purchases of new seats. Chances are also good you are buying your …
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Congratulations to our Trend Micro Internet Security 2010 winners!
Lee Brookshire of Hitachi/HEDUS corporation in Greenville and Allen Vailliencourt of Find Great People, also in Greenville are our winners! Congratulations to both of them, as they have won Trend Micro Internet Security 2010 anti-virus in our little giveaway… Trend Micro Internet Security 2010 is designed for home and small business users and offers protection against viruses, spyware, unauthorized changes …
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SECURE IT ALERT: Protect your data with DATA DESTRUCTION from ShredDisk #Greenville
Protect your data – by destroying it! Boy that sounds interesting doesn’t it? But what does that mean? As computers age and are replaced, they might find their way to a dumpster, or given to a non-profit organization who refurbishes them and resells them, or they may be given to a computer recycler who is supposed to dispose of the computer …
SECURE IT ALERT: Top Infection Method – video by Trend Micro CTO Raimund Genes
Raimund Genes, Trend Micro’s CTO explains how a computer becomes infected. It might not be what you expected.
SECURE IT ALERT: Microsoft vulnerability in DLL handling – Prepare thy self…
Homeland Secure IT Alert #3 for Thursday, August 26, 2010 Not to be outdone by the Apple Mac OS X security issues, Microsoft has a few new issues as well. This time regarding DLL handling. What follows is the original posting from US-CERT: — National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA10-238A Microsoft Windows Insecurely Loads Dynamic Libraries Original …
SECURE IT ALERT: Adobe Shockwave vulnerable on Mac and Windows – Update today!
Homeland Secure IT Alert for Thursday, August 26th 2010 I know it seems like it never ends… Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, Adobe Air, Java, Windows, Mac, one update and patch after another following these security announcements…. The vulnerability de jour is brought to you by Adobe, and it affects Shockwave player on Macintosh OSX and Windows platforms. The …