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This is a copy of an email I sent to the Adelaide SBS User Group a few minutes ago and consider this worthwhile posting to the wider world. "I’ve got a meeting with Trend Micro next week with one of the top people in the company who’s travelling...
The days between Christmas and new year were going to be the days I caught up with a heap of things in the office that had not received the attention they deserved through the rest of the year. Instead I was busy by a few clients that simply refused to...
Our office was broken into a week before Christmas :( As it turned out we didn't have anything stolen ourselves although other tenants did. There was damage to one of the doors though, but the most important thing is it got me seriously thinking about...
(snip from one of our recent client communiques)... Quite often we get asked about pop up screens when using Internet Explorer, alerting users that their systems are insecure or not performing correctly (for example). These messages typically have a button...
Viruses and worms are getting smarted and more complex. Some of the latest virus attacks involve new, combination viruses that are a mix of a virus and a worm. Typically these will infect a machine through either email attachments or malicious code downloaded...
After playing with the fingerprint scanner for a while I've found it's OK for keeping track of web site logins, but it's no good for REAL network security - controlling who can log into the domain, and maintaining complex password (read PASSPHRASE) policies...
I bought, and started playing with, a Microsoft USB fingerprint scanner yesterday. I've only had a little play with it but so far it looks pretty cool. I started by installing the software that shipped with it, following which you can plug in the device...
So I got a call from a client “we can't send email to company XYZ - the say we're sending SPAM or something, can you please find out what's going on?” (well, they didn't quite say it like that but I figured I should paraphrase a little for...