Here is a very good walk though of basic online safety steps that just about everybody should read. From start to finish! Google on Online Security It covers just about everything I and other security professionals have been saying for years. Strong passwords, up to date Operating Systems and Browsers, updated Antivirus and applications. NOT [...]
Folks, please, please, please be very careful of what you click on and what financial information you provide. Especially in response to an ‘alerting’ email! There are a great number of ‘phishing’ attacks occurring again and they are getting even more sophisticated. Many almost look and sound legitimate. I have written previously on some of [...]
This should just serve as another warning – PEOPLE KEEP YOUR AV AND ANTI-SPYWARE SOFTWARE UP TO DATE!! Use multiple types of protection, keep your systems OS files and applications updated. A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan [...]
It’s been a long few weeks. I Had an Exchange 2003 server whose physical hardware was failing – drive and drive controller errors and the physical disk was running out of space on the system drive. Which happened to be the ONLY drive in the server. Yes I know that the system, log and dbase [...]