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:
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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 [...]
Today we’ll continue talking about Windows 7, this time with a bit of a focus on the transition from Windows XP.
When Vista first came out, there was a lot of fanfare about compatibility problems between XP applications and Vista. Vista was a big enough change from XP that a lot of applications didn’t really work [...]
Lots of small business owners have heard the term ‘virtualization’ but may not understand some of the technical details, or the benefits. So I’d like to spend a few minutes giving you a brief run down of what it is, how it works, and what it means for you.
(This article is also a prequel to [...]
I’ve noticed lately that there seems to be a lot of searching for information on the “cost of downtime”, so I thought I’d spend a few minutes going over some calculations in detail. This item is an expansion of our previous article, which references a Gartner Group study on the cost of downtime.
The math itself [...]
Since Twitter has become mainstream, more and more people use it. Unfortunately that also includes spammers and hackers. And there aren’t many ways to protect yourself from malicious code.
The problem lies with the URL shortening services that are all over the tweets, and by extension over Facebook and My Space to name a few. The [...]