July 31, 2015 – 16th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day

This post is a shameless plug for for me and the my fellow computer support professionals.  Also, this post is completely plagiarized from The System Administrator Day website.

“Your network is secure, your computer is up and running, and your printer is jam-free. Why? Because you’ve got an awesome sysadmin (or maybe a whole IT department) keeping your business up and running. So say IT loud; say IT proud …

Happy SysAdmin Day!

Wait… what exactly is SysAdmin Day? Oh, it’s only ...

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General

Tor Story 1

TORlogoTOR or The Onion Router is one of the greatest anonymizer services available on the Internet, and allows anyone to use the Internet without revealing their source IP address, and through that, their location. Yet as recently as last November, when the FBI took down the Silk Road server and arrested its operator , and Interpol followed up with the seizure of 400 Dark Web marketplace sites and the arrest of ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, NSA, surveillance, TOR

WordPress Site Owners – Update Now

WordPresslogoJust a quick note to my WordPress pals – the latest update, WordPress 4.2.3, has an import fix for a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that leaves your site vulnerable to attack.  According to Sophos:

“The flaw allows WordPress users who have Contributor or Author roles to add javascript to a site (something normally reserved for Editors and Administrators) using specially crafted

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cybersecurity, Software vulnerability, Web Design, WordPress

PC Trial-ware Is a Security Risk

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.

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crapware, cybersecurity, Spyware

How Secure Is Your Accountant’s Network?

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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cybersecurity

Backup For Your WordPress Site

WordPresslogoOne 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.

And one of the most important things ...

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backup, cybersecurity, WordPress

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