by wwarren | Jan 19, 2014 | Cloud Computing, Google Apps, Microsoft, Office, Office 365
Being a Microsoft partner when i saw they were giving MAPS subscribers their top of the line Office365 package I thought this would be great. I was met with several challenges right off the bat: 1.Setting up the account isn’t straightforward at all. In...
by wwarren | Jan 17, 2014 | Security, Security Alerts
The latest breach isn’t Target’s first breach it turns out. Back in 2005 they were compromised as well. If this report is true many retailers have not upgraded to modern security on their front ends in over 10 years. If this is true the big box stores...
by wwarren | Jan 17, 2014 | Security, Security Alerts
NM’s breach is more significant than Target’s because of the length of the known compromise. Folks the same advice i gave for Target now goes to NM. If you used the same card at Target and NM and you’ve already re-issued that’s good. If you...
by wwarren | Jan 16, 2014 | Cloud Computing, Security, Security Alerts
There’s not much more to say. If you have the Starbucks app on your phone get it off of there and don’t put it back on. Starbucks has a lazy attitude towards security and it appears they aren’t going to change that anytime soon. The...
by wwarren | Jan 16, 2014 | Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
So Target was running Windows XP embedded and it appears they will for quite some time as it’s going to take quote a while to replace all of their vulnberable windows based POS systems with something else. The problem is even if they switch to something else if...
