Back in June I wrote a bit about Viruses, Trojans and Phishing. Well, this fall I have been busy cleaning up infections caused by this breed of scam anti-virus programs called “Rogue Programs”
Last week I wrote about privacy settings in Internet Explorer 8, this week, I’ll look at the security settings. I’ll try and explain some of the “whats” and “whys” of the settings, and how you may wish to use the settings.
Do you know how shopping sites know who you are? Do you know about cookies? Cookies were created to allow a web site to remember who you are and where on their site you last visited so that in future visits you could be taken right to the same spot. Unfortunately, unscrupulous web sites realized they could open a cookie, and as long as the session was open they could track everywhere you went after visiting their site.
Twitter has 32+ million users, Facebook and MySpace each have 70+ million users, and Linkedin claims 35 million users. Statistically there have to be quite a few criminals on these social sites. And oh, your supervisor or H.R. manager may also be checking these sites to check out employees or potential employees. Have I made you nervous?
In the past, junk information came to us through email, forwarded by friends of friends, and full of misinformation and urban legends. Now it shows up on iGoogle in your breaking news widget.
Do you tweet? Post to Facebook? Do you know what those are? If you answered yes, keep reading.
I was recently asked about digital cameras. Now I am by no stretch of the imagination an expert on such topics, but as always I have an opinion. In this instance it is a somewhat educated opinion. With any technology purchase the first thing a consumer must do is define how they plan to use [...]
The recent publicity surrounding the Conficker virus, and the Facebook “phishing” attacks, demonstrates the lack of understanding of how these programs spread, and how a few simple steps can help to avoid infection. Of course, the only way to absolutely insure perfect security is to turn off and unplug your computer. Since I think we [...]
I have just completed development of a basic four drawer file system for document storage and management. With a simple 1 terabyte RAID 5 NAS selling for around $1,000.00, and a desktop scanner, a Small Business can make the switch to document image management for less than $2,500.00. That is roughly 1.67 million pages of [...]
By Frank Schumacher Recently I was reading an article about typical IT mistakes businesses make, and realized it was nothing more than a sales pitch for expensive products and service. Have you ever had an IT consulting or services company present a system design that seemed outrageous? Unfortunately, that is frequently the normal mode of [...]
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