by wwarren | Jan 24, 2013 | Security, Security Alerts
How lovely. It is one thing to leave backdoors but to make them so insecure is inexcusable. If you value security yank these devices and start hammering barracuda to fix their vulnerabilities. A variety of the latest firewall, spam filter and VPN appliances...
by wwarren | Jan 14, 2013 | Security, Security Alerts
I’m going to watch this to see if it is really something to be concerned about or not. However the e-mail re-infection component has me a bit concerned. If that’s the case anyone who thinks ANY machine with malware can be cleaned is foolish. I may have...
by wwarren | Dec 15, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Security, Security Alerts
Folks…a firewall isn’t enough. You should not even leave the ports open for these devices. the only way to have a remote chance of doing this safely is to use a vpn so your connection is encrypted then you can get it. Honestly for these systems that are...
by wwarren | Dec 4, 2012 | Security, Security Alerts
To get rid of System Progressive Protection, you should use updated anti-malware programs, such as Spyware Doctor or SpyHunter. They will kill all malware processes and will remove infected files from the system. You may find it difficult to launch these programs, so...
by wwarren | Oct 26, 2012 | Microsoft, Security, Security Alerts, Windows 8
So this OS lives online. Considering the lack of password strength I’ve seen just in my clientbase alone…this one is going to lead not only to live.com hacks but now you’ll be able to easily compromised ANY Windows 8 machine…anywhere. This...
by wwarren | Oct 24, 2012 | Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Security, Security Alerts
Your vendors card reader taken over by a rogue credit card. I’ve seen this on tv but never thought it was for real. This is why i constantly tell folks to update EVERYTHING they can…even card readers now are computers running..Linux. However there was a...