Google…Really?
Interesting to see Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt crying about possible NSA snooping. Mr. Schmidt opines as follows: “It’s really outrageous that the NSA was looking between the Google data centers, if that’s true,” Schmidt said in an interview. “The steps that the organization was willing to do without good judgment to pursue its mission and potentially violate people’s privacy, it’s not OK.” Given Google’s disregard for its users privacy when it suites their profit goals makes it...
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From the Huffington Post 7 Ways to Avoid Identity Theft Before Facebook Gets Hacked Adam Levin, Posted: 2/7/13 7:35 AM Updated: 2/7/13 9:07 AM We’re coming up on three years since Mark Zuckerberg famously announced, “The age of privacy is over.” Some of us, however, still value our privacy. The nonstop Facebook information grabs of late, coupled with recent high-profile security breaches, point to the inevitable: a catastrophic breach at Facebook. When that happens, the most concentrated dossier about you, including all your...
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Well folks Windows 8 is here for real. Like it or not you will eventually have to figure it out. The business community will be slow to adopt this new iteration of the, here to fore, ubiquitous operating system. However home and personal users will be forced to cope with this new environment the next time they purchase a Windows based computing device. Unless Windows 8 fails the adoption process, al la Vista, we will all be using this operating system eventually. Fear not for the transition for the personal user, although challenging need not...
read moreDNSChanger Malware
If you haven’t heard about DNSChanger Malware by now you will soon. If everything written about this threat is even half correct we all need to get with the program and be sure our systems are clean. What is the program? Good question. My advice is visit www.DCWG.org. This site appears to be legit and will point you in the right direction when it comes to detecting and fixing a system infected by DNSChanger. This could be another Y2K but I don’t think so. Protect yourself and your business. Get a reliable antivirus/malware system...
read moreMicrosoft Office Click to Run
Microsoft’s relatively new application delivery system has begun to impact every day users, and not always with positive results. For those of us using third party add-ins to the Office 2010 productivity suite delivered through the Office Startup process, there may be some gotchas lurking in the new delivery system. Some add ins seem to choke on the Click to Run function. This would not be a problem if Click to Run were a feature of the Office Suite that could be managed through preference settings or the like. Sadly that is not the...
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