by wwarren | Jan 30, 2014 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7
Geek squad used to be competent albeit overpriced. I now have a client machine here that was diagnosed with a series of problems over the past few months to a year. 1. bad internal nic. new nic was installed. It was a good one(Intel) at least. 2. The machine...
by wwarren | Jan 30, 2014 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Server 2008, Sophos, Vendors, Windows, Windows 7
ETC Maryland has been working with this client for several years. The network this setup replaced was first installed in 2005 when this clients business first started. Due to ETC Maryland’s forward thinking this system was able to be literally rolled into this...
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...
by wwarren | Jan 14, 2014 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Office, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8
I know there are many small businesses that are running Windows XP still. As of April of this year Windows XP officially dies. Many programs are simply going to not work anymore as announced by their creators. Sure you can hang onto the old versions but as more and...
by wwarren | Jan 11, 2014 | Security, Security Alerts
If you have ever shopped at Target your information was taken. 100 million? This means Target was totally compromised and they had no idea. They’ll never be able to tell EXACTLY how many…if you are smart just assume everyone who has ever used any kind...
by wwarren | Jan 10, 2014 | Security, Security Alerts
When the first reports were only a limited subset of their data but a huge amount of customers I figured it was much worse. Target was just going to bide time for AFTER the holidays to fully report. NOw that the holidays are over the real extent is coming out....
