WyzGuys Tech Talk

Bluetooth is a useful wireless service that falls under the category of “Personal Area Network” or PAN.  This provides wireless functionality to mice, keyboards, headset and earpieces, and game controllers.  It also provides for computer to computer file transfers, a feature most people don’t know about or use.

But a hacker could use your Bluetooth connect to connect to your PC and browse around you files looking for backing information or credit card numbers.  They can also access Bluetooth enabled devices ...

My good friend and business associate, Troy King, owner of PCR Tech, invited me to be a guest on his weekly Friday podcast this week.  Check out podcast #48 at his web site.  We had a terrific wide ranging discussion starting with web filter with openDNS, and covering the FaceBook password scam, the future of Google in China, Android vs. Blackberry and iPhone, the 25th anniversary of the first .com domain name, the reanimation of the Commodore platform, ...

For people running home or small business wireless networks there are a few tips that can help you run your wireless access point more securely.

• Don’t let everyone use your network.  A wireless access point will work out of the box, just power it up and plug it into your DSL or cable modem.  Unless part of your business model involves providing free WiFi for your customers, this is a bad idea.  You should follow the directions of provided with your ...

This week I am planning to pass along a bunch of tips for using wireless networks more securely.  This first article was suggested by an article I read in IT World, and another article that they recommended in WLAN Book. 

If you have been using public wireless networks for any length of time, you are familiar with networks that are broadcasting a SSID (Service Set Identifier or network name) of “Free Public WiFi”.  Many of these ...

A recent article in IT World has described a Windows flaw that can be used by malicious hackers to install software exploits by using a vulnerability in the Help function of Internet Explorer on a Windows XP machine.  Evidently the exploit works when criminal cybergangs gain access to a web site server and install code that causes a popup window to appear advising site visitors to press “F1” for help.  The help they get is a silent download ...

You are invited to a short presentation entitled “7 Secrets of Windows 7” by Bob Weiss, computer support and networking guru, and owner of WyzGuys Computer and Network Support. This will be presented as part of the regular East Side Alliance BNI Chapter Meeting on Thursday March 18^th, from 7:00 am to 8:30 am.

Come a little early and bring about 75 business cards to pass to our members and other guests attending this presentation. This is a terrific opportunity for ...

No – the actor Chuck Norris is not giving a deadly kung-fu kick or karate chop to networking hardware devices  This is a new botnet attack against cable modems, DSL modems, and WiFi routers that use the Linux operating system.  This has been dubbed the “Chuck Norris” virus because the Italian author of this exploit wrote a tribute to Chuck Norris in the source code comments.

Why attack network edge devices and routers?  First, because these devices have a small but ...

I guy I know, Zach Peterson, is a videographer.  He was working on a project for Colon Cancer Awareness month, and was looking for people who had experienced a colonoscopy.  I volunteered.  Here are the links to my two commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ZPPOnline#p/c/4B6C7BC4B887B083/13/92jpiplQ2LI

http://www.youtube.com/user/ZPPOnline#p/c/4B6C7BC4B887B083/14/zEHYhr3Qev4

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, speaking about aircraft design, said "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."  In aircraft design, weight matters, to fly faster and more easily, light weight is essential.  This echoes the second of Bruce Lee’s ideas in my previous post, “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”  Both these points are important concepts for any ...