Data Rescue 4 Prosoft Engineering Price: $0 – 299 I recently had the opportunity to review Data Rescue 4.2 from Prosoft Engineering, including a branded copy of their Bootwell USB thumbdrive. From the publisher’s website: Data Rescue is hard drive recovery software that can recover your photos, videos, documents from: crashed, corrupted or non-mounting hard […]
Last week, Brian Krebs reported on a disturbing trend in federal (.gov) websites having “open redirects” enabled, allowing scammers to delivery content from seemingly legitimate (government) websites. So why do these open redirects even exist in the first place? Simply put, they are a convenience for website developers. Many websites will offer links to other […]
We regularly receive reports from clients who are denied access to certain websites, all while in the course of performing their legitimate work duties. As this Ars Technica article explains, a number of very high profile websites, including The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, were effectively compromised by their advertising partners’ ad […]
I bet most of us don’t sit around thinking “what are the biggest threats to cloud computing this year.” (Okay, I do, but I’m paid to be paranoid.) This article highlights the biggest cloud threats identified at the current RSA conference (one of the world’s largest security get-togethers). Out of these, which ones do you […]
Fact: traditional antivirus software will NOT protect your business from many threats on the Internet today. A firewall won’t, either. Not even a full-time security staff will shield you from the most insidious (and probably oldest) threat to your business today: social engineering. Social engineering is difficult to combat with technical controls. Things like spam […]
Our friends at SplashData have published their annual list of the worst passwords they’ve encountered. If yours is one of these (or even close) you really need to change it. Now. Go ahead. We’ll wait while you do.
E-rate is a popular federal program to provide funding for schools and libraries for technology and telecommunications projects. There’s a lot of paperwork involved, and some pretty strict deadlines, which are rapidly approaching. If you are involved in technology acquisition for your school or district, be sure to pay attention to these: DUE ITEM More […]
Last week, we received a frantic email from a client, reporting that the Vice President had lost an hour of work because his computer was freezing up. His email client had crashed, and was stuck for some time in an extensive rebuild process. While this was going on, the computer was pretty much useless, as […]
I recently received a text message from AT&T, telling me that I was at 90% of my monthly data cap. I was a bit surprised at this, given that I had 5GB of data for the month, and didn’t think I’d used an excessive amount of data. Since I’m on a mobile share plan with […]
We’ve all gotten that spam message that, despite being annoying and unsolicited, kinda seems interesting. “Yeah, I know I wasn’t really looking to buy any prescription drugs today, but that price seems really good…” If you ever get a spam email that looks enticing enough to buy, from, don’t! Here’s why: