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Plain and Simple - Spam is getting worse. Read
this!
If it seems like there's more spam in recent months
than ever before, it's because there is. More spam
is being generated, and more spam is making it past
some spam filters than ever before.
Why the upswing? Well, there are two theories, both
of which make sense.
First is an increase in the use of zombie networks
or "botnets" to actually send spam. Zombie networks
are simply machines owned by average users like you
and me, which have been infected with Malware that
can be secretly instructed to send spam. Since the
spam is sent from thousands, if not millions, of
different machines spread all over the world,
there's no reasonable way to block it.
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Five Ways to
Prevent Your Laptop from
Being Stolen
When
your laptop gets stolen, you lose a lot more than your
computer and the cost of the replacement. Take these simple
steps to protect it.
DON'T let your computer
out of your sight, even for a moment. Wi-Fi hotspots like
coffee shops can be distracting and are prime hangouts for
laptop thieves. Don't leave it on a table to get a refill
and don't put it on the floor behind your chair.
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How Did Google Get Its Name?
It's an odd
word, google. And it's taken up permanent residence in
the lexicon as not only a product name for a search
engine but also in verb form—to google. Why was Google
chosen? According to the company's web site, the term
was originally coined by Milton Sirotta, a
mathematician. It meant "1 followed by 100 zeros"—in
other words, an extremely large number. The originators
of Google saw the term as relevant to their mission,
which was and remains "to organize the immense amount of
information" that exists in the world.
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Cyber
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This FREE
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• Preventing
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• Top 10 Network Problems |
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The risk
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We invite you to come learn how to protect your business & personal
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When:
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
9:00am-11:00am |
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Barnacleware
by Mark D. MacLachlan, itSynergy
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Keeping
up to date with security patches for non Microsoft applications can
be a daunting task. Redmond Security Watch author Russ Cooper
recently referred to applications that come pre-installed on new
computers as barnacleware. The name is apropos, these pre-installed
utilities cling to new PCs slowly eating away at resources (both
hard disk and memory) in the same manner that barnacles cling to a
ship's hull, slowing it down and slowly eating the hull. |
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The Weakest Link in Network Security
By Peter Alexander
Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Small Business Center
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Your
small-business network may be protected by firewalls, intrusion detection and
other state-of-the-art security technologies. And yet, all it takes is one
person's carelessness, and suddenly it's as if you have no network security at
all.
Let me give you an example. |
In March 2006, a major financial services firm with
extensive network security disclosed that one of its portable computers was
stolen. The laptop contained the Social Security numbers of nearly 200,000
people. How did it happen? An employee of the firm, dining in a restaurant with
colleagues, had locked the laptop in the trunk of a SUV. During dinner, one of
the employee's colleagues retrieved an item from the vehicle and forgot to
re-lock it. As fate would have it, there was a rash of car thefts occurring in
that particular area at that particular time, and the rest is history.
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You will also learn how protecting the security of your network
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We’ve had an addition to our
ITSolutions family!
The proud parents -
Matt & Melissa (Runnels) Barry
Dillon Matthew Barry
Born 4/23/2008 5:42 am
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Fatherhood is
pretending
the present you love most
is
soap-on-a-rope.
-Bill
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Cyber Crime Seminar