Our friend Brent with ShredDisk is offering free hard drive shredding and computer recycling during the Grow Expo event on May 17th! Please read his blog post at http://www.shreddisk.com/blog/?p=146 Hard drive destruction remains the only 100% effective way to insure your data is protected when decommissioning a hard disk drive and this is a great opportunity to get rid of one …
What doesn’t kill you… Doug Aamoth sticks tweezers in a wet surge protector.
Occasionally I find a product claim so outlandish that I scoff at it. When I saw the Wet Circuits surge protector claims a while back, I thought how I wouldn’t do what they were doing in the video. (If you have not seen their videos, they demonstrate them by sticking tweezers into them while they were wet, as in under …
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Bovinova…. That is all….
Today starts the epic culinary event of the season… Bovinova. This thing is going to be a blast. But, unfortunately, I can’t tell you about it, until after the event. Â There will be fire, meat, swords (not meat swords though), entertainment and a good time will be had by all. The presenters have been working on this for months, …
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Did you know Homeland Secure IT is a Microsoft Authorized Education Reseller? #Greenville #Upstate
If you are needing Microsoft products for your school in the Greenville / Upstate SC area, Homeland Secure IT may be able to save you money… We are able to offer academic priced software through Microsoft Academic FPP, Open Agreement and School Subscription. The discounts can be substantial when compared to retail pricing! To find out if your organization is qualified, or for …
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“Privacy Bill of Rights” perspective from the WatchGuard blog
The following blog post is from the WatchGuard Security Center, posted by Chris McKie…. The “Privacy Bill of Rights” – A WatchGuard Perspective Chris McKie | April 12, 2011 at 12:50 pm | Tags: Compliance, Privacy Bill of Rights, Regulation, Security Law | Categories: Editorial Articles | URL: http://wp.me/pVP8E-8K “Whenever industry fails to self-regulate, government will fill the void …
Secure IT Alert: Microsoft Patch Tuesday is Coming – Strap In! Lots of Updates!
Homeland Secure IT Alert for Monday, April 11th, 2011 You’ve waited a whole month for this, and Microsoft has not let you down. Â Updates galore are ‘a comin’ tomorrow, April 12th, 2011. The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification states that this Patch Tuesday will be a big one. A total of 17 fixes, addressing 64 security vulnerabilities are there for …
The Commodore 64 is about to be available (all over again)
I’ve held off on posting about this for a few days since the first mainstream announcements came too close to April Fool’s to suit me… Yes, it is true, or so we are told, that the Commodore 64 will ride again. You can find out more about the Commodore 64x direct from Commodore USA. Back in the day, I loved …
Microsoft Office 2010 Click-To-Run Got You Down?
A recurring issue we find is that people are having difficulty in using their Microsoft Office 2010 product to its fullest. A common complain is that the software needs to download components over and over and that gets annoying. This is due to the fact that you purchased Office 2010 online, or installed it as a trial, then purchased. To …
Bogus Intuit QuickBooks Online Warnings Via Email Lead to Infection
Watch out for emails from Intuit and other software and service providers that appear to be legitimate and make sense on the surface… I was told by one of our friends/clients today that they had become infected after receiving an email from “software@quickbooks.com” which read something like this: Subject: QuickBooks Update: Urgent <Official Intuit QuickBooks Online logo here> You will …
What does the Epsilon security breach mean for you?
We’ve been hearing about Epsilon’s security breach for several days now. Some thought it was an April Fool’s joke due to how vague the initial press release release was, but obviously it was no joke at all. Epsilon has since updated their press release to indicate that this breach affects only 2% of total clients, but what exactly does that mean? …