The moment has arrived! It’s time to give away the Microsoft XBOX 360 gaming console…. Today I combined all our lists into one long Microsoft Excel spreadsheet… The list included names compiled from: General mailing list subscribers “Secure IT Alerts” mailing list subsribers Blog subscribers People who hit “like” on the www.HomelandSecureIT.com page People who “liked” our http://facebook.com/HomelandSecureIT page People …
Adobe Updates for Shockwave, Flash Media Server, Flash Player, AIR, Photoshop & RoboHelp
Running Adobe products? Of course you are! There are number of updates available that you need to apply. Please, if you are prompted to install these updates, do so. If not, make sure they are indeed installed, or better yet, just upgrade to the latest versions of the applications to avoid the potential for the vulnerabilities to be exploited… …
Secure IT Alert: Microsoft to unleash a ration of updates in August Patch Tuesday….
Homeland Secure IT Alert for Friday, August 5th, 2011 Tired of boring Tuesdays? Feeling deprived by Microsoft? Well, coming this Patch Tuesday, something to make every Microsoft user smile! Updates! You read that right, Microsoft has updates galore coming your way! They cover every current version of the Microsoft Operating system including the almost forgotten Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, …
Don’t forget – the 2011 South Carolina Sales Tax Holiday excludes items used in your business or trade…
It’s almost that time again! Starting tomorrow, August 5th at 12:01am until August 7th at midnight, South Carolina’s Sales Tax Holiday will be in effect. During this time, you can save 6% state sales tax on purchases in many categories, including the one we are most interested in, electronics. A few examples from the www.sctax.org website of exempt products: …
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Android trojan records phone calls – It’s not paranoia if they really are watching you…
Here’s an ugly one… A piece of malware could be installed on your Android that records your phone conversations and saves it to your memory card. A blog post over on the CA community site states that you could have a trojan spying on your conversations. While the author goes into detail about the functionality of the trojan, little is …
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Some browser stats for www.HomelandSecureIT.com #Windows #Mac #IE #Firefox #Chrome #Android #iPad
A couple weeks ago I was watching a conversation about the popularity of certain devices for browsing and thought I would pull out some recent information about our own website, http://www.HomelandSecureIT.com… Here’s a look at our site for July 1st until August 1st broken down by browser and platform: Other than the super-high bounce rate, we see some important information… …
Considering Storage, IP Surveillance, Security, Wireless or Switching for your business? Thought about D-Link?
Everyone is familiar with Cisco products, but not everyone may realize there are alternatives which can affect your bottom line drastically while providing an identical feature set and experience. D-Link is a leader in the field and their products can often times go head-to-head with Cisco. D-Link offers: Wireless network equipment, like access points, managed wireless switches for large scale …
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Apple Mac hardware failures… (hard drive, power supply, video card) Why so high?
Here’s a question for you all… Why is the apparent rate of hardware failure higher with Apple Mac products than with Microsoft Windows based products? Homeland Secure IT’s typical client is a Windows based small or medium business, and a little less than 5% of those businesses and individuals have Apple Mac products that we support as well. A larger …
Secure IT Alert: CERT Issues Security Recommendations to Prevent Cyber Intrusions
Homeland Secure IT Alert for Wednesday, July 21st, 2011 The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued their recommendations for protection against network intrusions. I have included the entire document below, but the most current version of the document can be found here. Please keep in mind that these recommendations are not related to any one platform. These are …
Computer theft can be reduced dramatically with simple & inexpensive devices #SRMC
Last week I wrote about hard drive encryption which could protect your data in the event your notebook, desktop or even a server were to be stolen… Odd that I mentioned one particular organization, Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, which had suffered two computer losses as of the date of that posting, because yesterday found SRMC back in the news with the …