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{ Monthly Archives } October 2009

Managing Updates, Fake Emails and Other Stories

The big theme from my clients for the past couple of weeks has been pretty consistent. I receive an email from a staff member at one of my clients, with a forwarded email message, and a question – “Is this legit?”. Without fail, the answer is no… the email is not legitimate. It’s another attempt [...]

The Chaos of Games Traffic

Well, the Olympic games are just a few short months away now. In just 4 short months, the city will be teeming with athletes and visitors from around the world.
And love it or hate it, traffic will be horrendous. There are road closures coming, restrictions to driving on certain highways, special lanes, emergency and VIP [...]

Another Attack

Clients have been getting a lot of these messages in the past few days:
Dear user of the your_domain_name.com mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (you@your_domain_name) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
(link removed for [...]

Got Security?

I came across a pretty good article this last week, which  bears expanding upon at least a little bit. It’s from the Globe And Mail, and goes into a study done this year on computer security, breaches, and their cost and effect on business.
The short version is that these types of breaches can cripple, or [...]