Business IT Systems Consultants and Support
T1 connections are expensive. There’s no way around that fact. And maybe what the Telcos charge for a T1 line isn’t precisely, tyranny, but if you’re writing the check to pay for it each month it sure might seem that way. But hey you have a choice. That Choice Has Two Parts Before we look [...]
You just received an email from a person you know and there’s an attachment. The problem is you weren’t expecting either! Is the attached file OK or did the other person’s computer get infected and send that attachment? You can play “attachment roulette” and hope OR you can in less than a minute or two [...]
Quoting Ed Skoudis from “Counter Hack” , “Passwords are the most commonly used computer security tool in the world today. In many organizations, the lowly password often protects some of the most sensitive secrets imaginable, including health care information, confidential business strategies, sensitive financial data and so on. Unfortunately, with this central role in security, [...]
On Tuesday 10/05/10 Adobe released a critical patch that addresses 23 separate vulnerabilities in its free Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobate software. Software versions effected are Reader and Acrobat versions 9.3.4 and earlier. Exploits that allow electronic criminals to take advantage of these vulnerabilities have been available on the Internet for several weeks prior to [...]
The simple title states it all. It’s not news, particularly since the dashed hopes of the post dot.com era and now with the lingering recession that started circa 2008 that many businesses have questioned how to derive the best value from their investment in information technology. One of my primary purposes will be to explore [...]