16 Feb

Data Backup Fact #2

Tape Backup

A Gartner Group research report revealed 71% of ALL tape restores fail! (more…)

15 Feb

Data Backup Fact #1

A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study revealed 70% of businesses that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year of the event. (more…)

15 Feb

Microsoft Fixes Critical IE, Windows Bugs with February Patch Tuesday

Microsoft released nine security updates Tuesday, four critical; five important, fixing 21 different holes in various applications with its February patch release. The four critical fixes deal with vulnerabilities in the company’s Windows, Internet Explorer, .NET Framework and Silverlight programs that could allow remote code execution if left unpatched. (more…)

13 Feb

Handful of Malicious Networks Will Spawn Most Attacks In 2012

A shadowy web of malicious networks, or “malnets” will be the source of two thirds of online attacks in 2012, according to a report from the security firm Blue Coat. (more…)

07 Feb

New Patch Issued to Fix Problems With OS X

Apple has issued a new patch for Mac OS X Snow Leopard to fix a problem that users were reporting with application-compaitibility with the original fix issued last week. The new patch is designed to alleviate problems with the Rosetta technology in Snow Leopard. (more…)

07 Feb

Sites Hosted by Hacking Victim Redirected To Scam Page

by Paul Roberts

A report from Web security firm zScaler finds that Web pages hosted by the firm Dreamhost are being redirected to a scam Web site in Russia following a hack of the company’s servers last month. (more…)

06 Feb

Harvest Moon Cafe and Garden Herb Shop

Downtown Canal Winchester is full of all kinds of surprises. It is one of the reasons that we moved our headquarters to the Historic Downtown area. One of the great surprises though not a big secret anymore is the Harvest Moon Cafe and Garden Herb Shop. Great coffee, food and best of all great people!

Check them out today!

harvestmooncafe.blogspot.com

03 Feb

Apple Ships Huge Set of Patches for OS X

Apple has released a massive set of patches for a wide range of security vulnerabilities in a number of its products and components, including OSX Lion and QuickTime. The patches, which are rolled up in OS X 10.7.3, fix a slew of serious bugs, many of which can be used to execute remote code on vulnerable machines. (more…)

02 Feb

How to Win Friends and Steal Their Facebook Accounts

by Dennis Fisher

CANCUN–Facebook is a lot of things, and one of the things that it’s become of late is a fertile green field for attackers and scammers of all stripes. The Koobface worm is perhaps the most famous threat to hit the network, but the more mundane ones, such as scammers generating fake profiles automatically to spread spam and malicious URLs are becoming more and more prevalent, researchers say. (more…)

30 Jan