The Human Threat? Social Engineering

Kevin Mitnick  wrote the book, Ghost In the Wires. I purchased it in audio format and recently finished listening to it. He was very good at Social Engineering but ended up in prison for it. In his book he tells about how he used social engineering to hack telephone companies switchboards  and other systems to get what he […]

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What is a Virtual Operating System?

VM stands for Virtual Machine. It is really just software that runs inside another operating system to run another operating system(s). If you have a large amount of memory an hard drive space you can run several “virtual machines” simultaneously.  You are limited also by your operating system capabilities. For instance, a 32 bit OS […]

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Hacks

So I found a few comment entries on the blog being posted over the last few days that were spam. Go Figure. It appears that someone with international leverage of resources had found a way to get past the CAPTCHA and decided to pick on my server. So I have blocked those country subnets from […]

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Strong Passwords? What’s the fuss?

This says it best. Seriously – how hard is it to protect yourself with a password? Lets go one step further on the subject and ask how many user names do you really have? Bank, Email, Another Email, Your School, Your Job, Instant Messenger, and .. and .. and .. How many of them are the […]

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Virus Trivia

Now can you guess who we are going to be partnering with in the very near future to provide you with the most affordable, best performing antivirus solution?

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Browser and OS Choices

See what people are using to view our website and blog. Interesting!

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Browser Performance Basics

 Left unchecked your browser can become crippled and start to cost you more time than it should. It does not matter what browser or operating system you use. Most of these suggestions will help because they are designed to cause your browser to use resources more efficiently. Lets continue with the understanding that you are working from your […]

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Drive By Banner Ads – An Effective Way to Give You a Virus. Who Knew?

Today I am taking some time to touch on a topic that never gets any press.  No major companies who have advertisers want to say anything about it. That would make them responsible! Here it is.  The people who write malicious viruses that damage computers and steal identities are making a lot of money these days. They […]

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The Small Things Matter

I am using my phone for this one so I need to keep it simple. A lot of small needs came through the door this week. The devil is in the details. One browser hijack, one “lost” app,  an email client imap issue,  and a computer tweak over a remote support session. There were many […]

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