Following up on last week’s post explaining Cloud Computing, I want to spend a few more minutes covering off some of the other business advantages, and why you may wish to consider this for more than just the cost savings. Yes, the cost savings can be significant, and so can the simplicity it brings to [...]
A fairly big buzzword in IT circles for the past while has been “Cloud Computing” or “Cloud Services”. Now, as an IT pro myself, I generally don’t like to use too much tech jargon with my clients. However these terms have gained such common acceptance by IT-types, that it occured to me that many business [...]
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 [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, the Outlook phishing scam continues to run rampant. There’s a screenshot of what the email looks like after the break, if you’re wondering what I’m talking about.
Questions continue to arrive from clients asking me about this, and whether or not they should be applying these patches. Of course, [...]
So the latest virus/ phishing attempt by spammers and scammers has actually generated a few emails in our direction. People have asked whether or not the email they received is real, and I can understand why.
The email comes in looking like it’s an update for a Microsoft product… there’s a screenshot after the jump. The [...]
For medium sized companies with aspirations of becoming really big, this is one to play close attention to.
There’s a move by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to expand the name space used for what are called top-level domains. In short, there are a few top-level domain in the world, such as [...]