Check out the new look for Nexlink’s computers! Same great case, with a more modern face plate… Those of us here at Homeland Secure IT have worked with computers from every major computer manufacturer you’ve heard of, and we are partners with many great providers of computers and servers, such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, etc… However, for business computers, …
Would you drive a car without a spare? Why would you not want a backup?
Would you drive a car without a spare tire in the trunk? Auto makers are selling cars without spare tires! How about operating your computer without a backup? Not a week goes by that we don’t hear some horror story about computer owners losing data. It could be from a virus, a failed hard drive, a dropped notebook, even a …
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Dollars & Sense: Transitioning your business to a Voice over IP phone system #VoIP #Telephony #Cisco #SMB
Pardon the pun with the “dollars & sense” thing, but really that is what it comes down to, whether it makes sense, not just the dollar amount. In my previous post, we looked at a company we will call “Business One”, a local small business using PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) with their old key phone system and asked the …
Paying too much for your business phone service? Maybe it’s time to switch to SIP trunking #SIP #VoIP
In assisting clients recently with their IT needs, we have been discovering a number of them are paying too much for their business phone service. After thinking about it, I decided to contact a sampling of our clients, all in the SMB (Small and Medium Business) segment, and ask them if they would share some information with us so we …
I wanted a secure password, so I just went with this one…
One of the newsletters I read regularly had a link to this video… So I figured it would be a great password to use… Data from Star Trek TNG emulates Picard’s voice with a very long password.
SECURE IT ALERT: Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2011 #patches
Homeland Secure IT Alert for Thursday, June 09, 2011 Microsoft Patch Tuesday will soon be upon us again, and Microsoft has not let us down! A little something for everyone…. The following is directly from their Advanced Notification for June 2011, released today: ******************************************************************** Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2011 Issued: June 9, 2011 ******************************************************************** This …
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Been a long time since we gave something away… What shall it be????
I was asked by a client why we haven’t been giving away stuff… That’s a good question! I don’t know, we just got distracted with work or something. If you remember from a while back, we gave away a Cisco Flip Mino HD camera that we won in a contest, and we also gave away a really cool wireless network …
Homeland Secure IT Computer Service & Sales will be Closed in Observance of Memorial Day
We are taking Monday, May 30th off from work in observance of Memorial Day… Should you need us for an emergency, a voice mail or email will go to our smartphones. If you don’t know what Memorial Day is all about, WikiPedia has some info for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day I would personally like to give honor to those who died serving …
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Guess what we found on an old hard drive? Thousands of medical and personal records… #datasecurity #security
Brent Amyette over at ShredDisk wanted to perform an experiment to determine just how well data was being protected by those selling used equipment, so he purchased a used server off of the online site, Craigslist. He then brought the server to us and we examined it. The three hard drives had previously been in a RAID array, but had …
How to avoid or remove Mac Defender malware #mac #malware #apple
It seems that Apple has finally acknowledged that there is a need to protect their users from malicious software, in particular the “Mac Defender” (also known as MacProtector, MacSecurity as well as MacDefender). In an article titled “How to avoid or remove Mac Defender malware“, posted yesterday on the http://support.apple.com site, you can find out how to avoid this inconvenience …