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You can’t pull this off with a ski mask and a gun.  A major bank heist that cleared a $45 million haul from two banks on the Arabian peninsula was pulled off by an international cyber-crime crew during two days, one in December 2012 and and the other in February 2013.  The story reads like a crime novel or Hollywood movie.

First, in December, cyber-criminals gained access to the databases of an Indian company that handles the debit card transactions of ...

My question is – has this ever happened to you?  If you were on a web site, and they called your phone, would that seem creepy? Or just super friendly? Or is super friendly kind of creepy?  I would love to here your experience or comments about this.

This is a new one for me. I got a call from a client who was on a web site for professional organizers, and while on the site she got a phone call ...

Twenty years ago on April 30, 1993 Tim Berners-Lee, a physicist at the CERN Physics Lab in Geneva Switzerland presented the networking protocols that created the World Wide Web. (No – NOT Al Gore!!) The Internet, such as it was back then, was the child of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpanet, 1969), and had become a disparate mash-up of competing proprietary networks, such as CompuServe, Prodigy (remember), and the fledgling American On-Line, Gopher (see below), and others my ...

Windows 8 introduced some significant changes to the user interface, most significantly replacing the Start Menu and Start Button with the tile-laden Start Screen.

Just want your Start Button and Start Menu back?  Try the free download from Classic Shell.  I’ve used it and it works pretty well.  You can choose from the classic Windows 95-98 menu, the two column Windows XP menu, or the newer Windows 7 menu.  Download from www.ClassicShell.net

Small business owners need to be on their guard for email frauds like the one described in this article on Sophos.  This is a must read, and must share with your controller, bookkeeper, or office manager.

Slovenian police on Thursday raided 12 homes and arrested five Slovenian citizens in connection with sending malware-packed email to small and medium businesses’ accounting departments.

The email was spoofed to look like it came from a local bank or, in one case, the ...

Yes Virginia, you do need a password. And because passwords are being cracked by high-end machines running sophisticated password cracking programs, it need to be both long and complex, and ideally, unique to each site or device. How long? At least ten, to maybe as many as fifteen characters is ideal. A six or seven character password can be cracked in hours or days; a password of ten or more characters requires decades or centuries. A strong password cannot be ...

Microsoft introduced Windows 8 last October, and we have developed a brand new class to address the major changes that it brings to the computer user experience.  Because this is a transition period between Windows 8 and Windows7, some of the districts are still offering Windows 7.  You can register by clicking through on the link below.  Choose carefully so you get the Windows 8 or Windows 7 class you want.

Secrets of Windows 8

Who moved my cheese! Windows 8 is ...

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Visitor Day – Woodbury – Pinnacle Referrals

Date: 04/04/2013 to: 04/04/2013

Time: 7:30 AM to: 9:30 AM

Our Mission
The mission of BNI is to help members increase their business through a structured, positive, and professional "word-of-mouth" program that enables them to develop long-term, meaningful relationships with quality business professionals.

Last year alone, members of BNI passed 6.5 million referrals…
…which generated over $2.8 billion dollars ...