http://www.shaferconsulting.com Business IT Systems Consultants and Support Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:52:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2011-telco-t1-tyranny-expensive-and-slow http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2011-telco-t1-tyranny-expensive-and-slow#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 21:44:35 +0000 Mike Shafer http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2011-telco-t1-tyranny-expensive-and-slow 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. 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You can play “attachment roulette” and hope OR you can in less than a minute or two [...]]]> http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-do-you-play-attachment-roulette/feed 0 http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-bad-passwords-the-weak-link-to-getting-hacked http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-bad-passwords-the-weak-link-to-getting-hacked#comments Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:04:00 +0000 Mike Shafer http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-bad-passwords-the-weak-link-to-getting-hacked 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, [...]]]> http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-bad-passwords-the-weak-link-to-getting-hacked/feed 0 http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-it-matters-making-business-it-work http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-it-matters-making-business-it-work#comments Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:43:00 +0000 Mike Shafer http://www.shaferconsulting.com/site/2010-it-matters-making-business-it-work http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-it-matters-making-business-it-work/feed 0 http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-cisco-for-small-business-an-example-network-case-study http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-cisco-for-small-business-an-example-network-case-study#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:03:57 +0000 Mike Shafer http://www.shaferconsulting.com/site/2009-cisco-for-small-business-an-example-network-case-study This article is part 2 of a 2 part series: Part 1 is at Why Is Cisco Equipment a Smart Investment for Small Businesses? Moving from the broad over view covered in Part 1 lets now move into demonstrating some of the direct benefits of the more commonly implemented features of Cisco router and switches [...]]]> http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-cisco-for-small-business-an-example-network-case-study/feed 1 http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-is-cisco-for-small-business-the-right-choice http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-is-cisco-for-small-business-the-right-choice#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:57:44 +0000 Mike Shafer http://www.shaferconsulting.com/site/2009-why-is-cisco-equipment-a-smart-investment-for-small-businesses http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2010-is-cisco-for-small-business-the-right-choice/feed 1 http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2009-wireshark-for-network-management http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2009-wireshark-for-network-management#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:40:48 +0000 Mike Shafer http://www.shaferconsulting.com/site/2009-wireshark-for-network-management An edited version of this article was originally printed in the May 2009 edition of Hakin9 Magazine under Tool Reviews. As an IT consultant I frequently need to monitor and analyze network traffic. Wireshark is easily the tool of choice. Introduction: The great white is one of the undisputed masters of the open seas and [...]]]> http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2009-wireshark-for-network-management/feed 0 http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2009-the-cybercrime-ecosystem-by-eugene-kaspersky http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2009-the-cybercrime-ecosystem-by-eugene-kaspersky#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:23:00 +0000 Mike Shafer http://www.shaferconsulting.com/site/2010-the-cybercrime-ecosystem-by-eugene-kaspersky Cybercrime Is Here to Stay Our society has evolved to the point where many if not most of us spend a significant portion of our lives online. In many ways, this online virtual world mirrors our real world. Criminals, who are an unfortunate but integral part of our social structure, quite naturally have also appeared [...]]]> http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2009-the-cybercrime-ecosystem-by-eugene-kaspersky/feed 1 http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2009-conflicker-worm-will-not-cause-the-world-to-end http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2009-conflicker-worm-will-not-cause-the-world-to-end#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:26:02 +0000 Mike Shafer http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2009-conflicker-worm-will-not-cause-the-world-to-end http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2009-conflicker-worm-will-not-cause-the-world-to-end/feed 0 http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2006-stealth-keylogger-used-to-invade-victim-bank-accounts http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2006-stealth-keylogger-used-to-invade-victim-bank-accounts#comments Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:12:22 +0000 Mike Shafer http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2006-stealth-keylogger-used-to-invade-victim-bank-accounts http://www.shaferconsulting.com/2006-stealth-keylogger-used-to-invade-victim-bank-accounts/feed 0