I am updating our project plan template for implementing PCI-DSS with our customers and paused to reflect on how difficult it is to change culture in some small businesses. In larger enterprises, IT departments are given the iron fist with which to rule by, but small businesses typically outsource their IT to companies like ours where there is [...]

On a recent trip, I was very concerned about the wireless connections I was getting at hotels, relatives houses and at coffee shops. Once upon a day, you had to pay for wireless access at a hotel. At least this meant your activity could be tracked and this helped keep the evil doers away. With [...]

Windows Vista suffered from some very negative criticisms when it first launched which have crippled its adoption rate in nearly every sector. Home users would “hear from a friend” that a certain piece of software didn’t work, the system was slow, or full of bugs. Business users read reviews that scored Vista poorly, or felt [...]

Security analysts have found another virus infecting multimedia files (including .MP3’s). The infected files, once shared, convince unsuspecting users to download a bogus codec in order to make them play. However, that “codec” is actually malware intended to infect your PC.
Moral of the story? Avoid using your work computer on peer-to-peer sites for downloading music.
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We are beginning to see emails targeting the travel industry which carry a virus in an attached .zip file. The email may claim to be from a valid airline, however, the return email address does not match the airline and appears to be forged.  There are also spelling and gramatical mistakes in the email, and [...]