WyzGuys Tech Talk

63 B&N stores in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island were discovered to have PIN pads at the checkout that sent credit card information to unknown recipients.   It appears the the software in the PIN pads themselves had been reprogrammed somehow by the perpetrators to accomplish this feat.  The breach has been under investigation by the FBI for some time prior to the announcement to give them time to track down the cyber-criminals.

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Many people already know that I am not a fan of McAfee security products, due to the number of unusual networking issues I have come across that were resolved by removing McAfee and installing anything else.

Well, I have another product to add to my short list of security products to avoid.  One of my clients was having problems getting all his Internet connection speed.  He had F-Secure Online Protection from CenturyLink.  When we removed it we got a 10 fold ...

I read an interesting blurb in the Sunday Oct 14th edition of the St Paul Pioneer Press on “event boundaries.”  If you have ever had the experience of going on a mission to another part of your house only to have forgotten why you went there, your memory lapse was most likely triggered by walking through the doorway of the new room.  It turns out our minds pack up and store our thoughts when leaving one room or entering another.  ...

For the next two weeks I will be teaching a course designed to help small business owners inprove their page rank and traffic on their web site.

So you own or manage a web site, but nothing’s happening. How can you improve your results in the major search engines, increase your page rank, and drive traffic to your web site that results in more business? In this class you will learn about online strategies you can do yourself for free that ...

I am coming into another season of Community Education Classes, and the first offering will be Deep Web Search Secrets.  The class description is below.  Please register for the class at the Community Education Program link below.  I cannot take walk-in students, so please pre-register.

Tired of searching Google, Bing or Yahoo, and getting thousands of results but not the information you want? Search the Internet using advanced techniques. Explore the public websites and visit parts of the vast realm of ...

Companies like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of American (MPAA) and other organizations that are trying to enforce copyrights on songs, movies, and television shows are actively scanning the BitTorrent swarms for popular content that is being traded on these platforms.  They are logging the IP addresses of those they believe to be infringing on their copyrights in violation of the law, in order to pursue those individuals through their Internet Service Providers, ...

If there is one product that seems to call for updates on a daily basis, it is Adobe Flash.  No wonder Steve Jobs banned it form the iPad.  There is a new threat for a security vulnerability know as a Remote Code Execution.  This is when you visit a website, and get a “drive-by download” or malware installation that happens just from being there.  This update closes that security hole.  You can read more on Sophos.

So when Adobe ...

Members of the Anti-Sec hacktivist group have released 1 million Apple devices IDs that were stolen from the laptop of FBI agent Christopher Stangl, a member of the FBI’s Regional Cyber Action Team.  This is only part of a 12 million ID trove that was acquired from Agent Stangl’s laptop.  The full article is on Wired.

The file, according to the hackers, contained a list of more than 12 million Apple iOS devices, including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user ...

I read a great article on PCWorld about using SEO (search engine optimization) strategies to help keep you web site on top of Google rankings.  If you are serious about maintaining your page rank or improving it, this would be worth a read. 

Some of the ideas he shared included:

• How to disavow incoming links from spammy sites that may be negatively impacting your site’s reputation.
• Incoming links should avoid keyword stuffing, so if you are getting links from ...