To answer my question – no, but it sure seems like it. If you live here, as I do, and you see two of the biggest locally headquartered retail giants take a tumble like this, it is easy to become paranoid. But these kinds of breaches are happening everywhere this year. Major national and regional retail chains (Goodwill, Neiman Marcus, Jimmy Johns, Michaels, etc.) get ...
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Stumbled across an article on Tech Dirt that made a great visual statement about how technology has made us “less social.” Or has it? Looks like the only thing that has changed in 100 years is the medium. Anyway, take a look at these photos. Looks like we have been anti-social long before the smartphone “killed conversation.”
I just read a couple of articles about wireless networking that ought to be concerning to you – if you are one of the 75% who think unsecured public Wi-Fi systems are safe to use for any purpose. Because, if you think so, you are wrong!
In a survey that was ...
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Hey, it happens. Sophos has a great article giving the step by step you need to recover from this without reinstalling everything from scratch. Everything below is from Sophos. Thanks, guys.
Continue Reading →Microsoft has published a workaround that will get you up and running again, but it involves a fair amount of fiddling.
You need to:
- Boot from installation media or go into Recovery Mode.
- Delete the crash-triggering file %WINDOWS%system32fntcache.dat.
- Reboot normally, which should now succeed.
- Save the registry key ...
In a recent survey of 379 former employees by Intermedia and Osterman Research found that 89% of them still had access to their former employers Salesforce, PayPal, email, SharePoint, Facebook, and other accounts, and 60% of them were not asked for their Internet logins when they quit, 45% retained access to confidential employer data, and 49% logged in to company accounts after leaving their employer.
And who knows what went out the door on that USB flash drive…
This points to a ...
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I’ve read about this a few places and decided to alert my readers, too. Security firms FireEye and Fox-IT have a way to possibly decrypt your affected files, if you still have them, without paying the ransom. In order to check, go to https://www.decryptcryptolocker.com and submit one of your encrypted files for possible decryption. This is accomplished by running the file through all of the captured private decryption keys that were recovered during Operation Tovar, when some of the ...
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The picture above is supposed to be how the new user interface of Windows 9 is going to look. Gratefully, it looks like Microsoft has finally realized the colossal blunder it made when it removed the Start Menu in Windows 8 and 8.1. To me it looks like the right column has been absorbed by the Start Screen apps, which is not my favorite solution, I would rather have ...
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Many homes an businesses are using wireless networking to connect their computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, printers, televisions, DVD and DVR players and other smart devices and appliances to the local household or business network, and to the larger Internet beyond. Wireless networking devices such as wireless routers and access points are ...
This was first reported by Hold Security on Tuesday August 5th. and it has been picked up even by the mainstream press and media outlets. A Russian criminal organization has amassed a huge trove of 1.2 billion user names and passwords. This could be all of them, folks, so it might be a good time to go through your online accounts and change them ALL! Wish I was kidding, because I have way over 100 to do myself. Maybe it’s ...
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Love this sign I found in the men’s room at my favorite pool and spa company.
