If you have a moment to spare, could you pop over to our listing on Thumbtack.com and make a few comments about us?Ā Greenville & Upstate Computer Service and Sales We are trying to increase awareness of what Homeland Secure IT does, and Thumbtack offers another resource that will do just that. Our listing there shows that we do your typical …
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Yesterday went by faster than normal thanks to the BMW Performance Driving School
We took off towards the “Rat Race” track first, which was a mostly flat surface, partially wet from the rains the previous evening and from sprinklers that run continuously. The car was the ever popular 3 series sedan with all the options. One thing different about from how you normally drive it on the street was that the traction control …
Happy Valentine’s Day from Microsoft!
Yeah yeah, it’s just patches… This is from our friends over on the WatchGuard Security Center: Most people get flowers, chocolates, and cards for Valentine’s Day, but next Tuesday Microsoft IT professionals can expect a big box of patches. According to their advanced notification postĀ for February, Microsoft will release nine security bulletins next Tuesday, February 14th. The bulletins deliver updates …
Western Digital WD Sentinel DX4000 Small Office Storage Server Offers a Lot of Bang for your Buck!
Looking for an affordable way to backup your files or even entire computer? How about allowing access to those files via the web? Then check this out… WD Sentinelā¢ Small Office Storage Server – Connect. Protect. Collaborate. WD Sentinel is easy to install and provides secure centralized storage, complete data protection, and remote file access for your employees while in …
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Catch some live music & a hockey game all in one night with Dockside Band & Greenville Road Warriors
Tomorrow night, February 9, 2012, my band, Dockside, will be opening for a hockey team! I’ve played a lot of gigs, and opened for every style of band you can imagine, but never a hockey team… There’s a first time for everything though, so we’re going with it and we are very excited to be playing before the Greenville Road …
Smile, You’re on Candid Camera! TRENDnet Security Camera Feeds Exploited
TRENDnet announced that upwards of 50,000 cameras, comprised of 26 vulnerable models have been identified which are vulnerable to the threat of being used for reverse surveillance. An article on BBC.co.uk indicates that as 7 of the 26 vulnerable models have patches to faulty code already released and the owners would be notified of the available updates. The scary thing …
Are you sticking to that new year’s resolution to backup your computer or server data?
You were lucky enough to make it through 2011 without a catastrophic failure of a hard drive, data corruption, loss of a notebook computer, etc, but will 2012 be so kind? If you are like so many people and businesses we work with, you are NOT backing up your data. Maybe it is too much trouble, or too expensive. …
SECURE IT ALERT: Something new for 2012 for Apple Mac OS X users – SECURITY UPDATES! Yippeee!
Secure IT Alert for Thursday, February 2, 2012 If you are running a current version of Apple Mac OS X, 10.6.x or OS X 10.7.x Ā (Snow Leopard & Lion respectively), then you are vulnerable to exploits that these patches correct. These security flaws could potentially allow an attacker to execute code on your computer after you visit a malicious web …
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Homeland Secure IT’s #LeapIntoIT Kindle Fire Giveaway will let one of our Upstate, SC friends get a new toy!
It’s that time again! Ā Time for us to have some fun, and help one of our Upstate, SC friends get something cool to play with. We’ve given away stuff before, like Trend Micro anti-virus, a wireless IP security camera, a Cisco Flip Mino HD video camera, Microsoft Office 2010, and even a Microsoft X-BOX 360, but this is likely the …
Handy List of Star Codes for Cisco SPA525G2 phones #VoIP #Cisco
One of the best selling phones for the small and medium business (SMB) market is the Cisco SPA525G2 phone. The entire series of SPA phones are affordable, reliable and well suited to SMB use, but the 525 G2 is the current big daddy with its color display, ability to play MP3s from a memory stick, sync to your cell phone …