A few weeks ago, ZDNet’s Ed Bott reported on the way that potentially unwanted software gets installed with Java. Here’s what to look out for. With the frequency of Java updates, you have probably seen (and ignored) the popups that ask you to install. But if you do run an update (which you very much [...]
My dad frequently asks me when the day will come that we will no longer need passwords. He happily tells me that he would rather not have passwords at all because they are too hard to remember. Here is a good tip I learned for coming up with a long password that is difficult to [...]
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac was released on January 15th, 2008. It replaced Office 2004 for Mac and was the first version of Office to be released in a universal binary format, meaning it was compiled for both PowerPC (found in older Macs) and Intel (found in all new Macs) processors. It was supposed to [...]
Sources at Fox News state a catastrophic cyberattack is underway. A company that is known for spam-fighting is being hit with a cyber attack that is the biggest the World Wide Web has ever seen. The attack is a DDoS (also known as Distibuted Denial of Service) which is a large group of computers aimed [...]
Many people have a hard time understanding all of the windows that pop up on a PC. Windows sometimes appear so frequently, that it’s difficult to determine what the issue really is. How do you know if a pop up window alerting you of an infection is actually real? The answer is not as simple [...]
If you have an important iPhone that requires constant attention, then this feature is for you! You can now enable LED Flash Alerts to bring in 3 senses into notifications. You can now hear, feel, and see all notifications for calls, texts, and alarms. I am posting this information because a friend showed me and I [...]
The Windows 8 touch screen feature allows you to have an image for a password to unlock your workstation. This is a video walk through on how to set it up. Watch the video here.
On January 10th, GigaOM reported that Nokia decrypts SSL traffic from the Xpress web browser installed on its Asha and Lumia smartphones. What does this mean for your mobile workforce? Some background information might be helpful to start off. Compressing mobile web traffic is a fairly common way to increase speed and decrease data use [...]
In todays’ world, everything is going to the “cloud”. Well email is in fact following the same trend. More and more you are probably hearing about hosted email. Well I am here to provide you a little bit of information on that topic. As like anything else out there, there are positives and negatives. First [...]
When people think about protecting their company information from hackers, competitors, or anything else that may be harmful to your business, they think about protecting everything electronically, but this is not the only thing to take into consideration. Protecting everything electronically with complex passwords, antivirus, firewalls, etc. is great but what about the physical security [...]