If you are using the paid version of AVG Internet Security as your endpoint security solution, you will see a pop-up over the next week that will take you to a page providing instructions for upgrading your AVG to remain compatible with the new Windows 10 operating system. Evidently it is important to be upgraded to AVG Internet Security 2015.
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Continue Reading →So you bought yourself a new computer. It has everything, a touch screen, built in WiFi and Bluetooth, anything you could want. And a whole bunch of stuff you didn’t want, in the form of pre-installed software programs, trial-ware, and other bloat-ware and crap-ware that causes an unrelenting stream of pop-ups asking you to purchase and activate these mostly worthless programs.
This is the year that false tax return filing really made the news in a big way. First, there was the exfiltration of return data from the IRS Get Transcript website, where many American taxpayers lost personally identifying information. Now there is news of an attack by a Bulgarian cyber-criminal against the networks of four unidentified accounting firms, and the theft of the tax and personal information of around 1000 clients. This crook has been extradited ...
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A follow up to last Sundays musings on human-computer relations
One of the most important and easily implemented security protections is data backup. That’s right, backup is a part of a well crafted security program. Because whatever the disaster, whether cyber-attack, theft, data corruption, hardware failure, fire, flood, or bad weather, having a good backup program means that you can recover from disaster and continue operations.
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Continue Reading →Not sure what’s happening, can’t find any news on it, but according to the web site “Is It Down Right Now?” Like to buy a couple computers today…
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One of the best ways for protecting your employees, and your kids for that matter, from malware laden websites and other NSFO (not suitable for the office) websites is to subscribe to a service called OpenDNS. We have used them with several of our clients and found them to be a great way to filter web content, at just $28 per user per year.
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With all the personal data that has been stolen over last couple of years making headlines, prime time news stories, and an endless barrage of hacker-themed TV programs (Scorpion, Person of Interest, Mr Robot, etc.), cybersecurity has become a mainstream topic of interest. Everyone wants to know how to protect themselves and their data from attack. Encryption is beginning to ...
Sorry for this post, as it is not really funny at all, at least not for the 22 year old German factory worker who was killed in a Volkswagen plant by a factory robot at the beginning of July. But happening as it did around the release of Terminator Genisys, the irony is tough to ignore.
Ever since I finished ...
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In the last couple of weeks we have read about two new security issues with Apple’s OSX operating system. The first was about a new threat named “CORED” or “XARA” (for Cross-App Resource Access). In this exploit a rogue app on the App Store could use the elevated privileges of another installed app to execute malicious code at a higher ...