Intuition & Elbow Grease™

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before… Looks like my ATT statement is ready, and isn’t nice of them to send me an email notification?  But uh-oh!  Look how much that bill is for!  Surely someone’s made an error!  I’d better click on that link and get this straightened out, pronto! Ok, let’s stop [...]

  135 million+ members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities. I just received a fraudulent email claiming that my LinkedIn account was locked out.  At first glance the sender appeared legit as did the body of the email and the link that I was [...]

From McAfee AvertLabs: “McAfee is aware that a number of corporate customers have incurred a false positive error due to incorrect malware alerts. Our initial investigation indicates that the error can result in moderate to significant performance issues on systems running Windows XP Service Pack 3. The 5958 DAT has been removed from McAfee download [...]

The current generation of cellular telephony products presents a wide range of potential risk to the corporate environment. From the simplest cell phones that could expose a corporate phone list, to more advanced cellular devices that are capable of storing and manipulating documents, to the latest smart phones that enable direct access to the network [...]

Just a quick note this morning to remind everyone to make sure that you’re making plenty of backups of your data.   I’m a bit paranoid when it comes to data loss, so I like to take extra precautions.  Since all of our computers are macs every machine here has an external drive attached for using [...]

The SANS Internet Storm Center is reporting that Microsoft has released a critical security patch to address a vulnerability in remote code execution for users of Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. There are unconfirmed reports that this critical patch was released out of band due to the vulnerability that it addresses is [...]

How many passwords do you have?  More than one?  Do you have a separate, robust, easily remembered password for each and every login you have?  I’m thinking that the majority of people fall into one of two categories when it comes to passwords; first up are the folks that just find it too annoying or [...]