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Microsoft Windows Intune, Part 1

July 21st, 2011 · Comments Off

Windows Intune is a “cloud” and PC based product that includes Windows 7 Enterprise for your computers and cloud based management of those computers. The idea is fairly simple and honestly a good one. You get Windows 7 for any PC you have (even though most if not all PC’s already come with an operating [...]

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Tags: Internet · Malware · Purchasing

Windows 7 and IE 8 or IE 9 “Do you want to display non secure items”

May 25th, 2011 · Comments Off

In Windows 7 and Vista, if you use Internet Explorer 8 or 9, it is not uncommon to visit a web page, especially one that has “secure” info such as a bank or shopping site, and get a pop up in the middle of your screen stating “This page contains both secure and non secure [...]

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Tags: Internet

ESET and SBS 2008 Issues, Part 3

November 30th, 2010 · Comments Off

In the first two parts of this article I have gone over some issues with Windows Small Business Server 2008 and the Server / Exchange version of ESET, let’s pickup where we left off.

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Tags: E-Mail Issues · Internet · Networking · Software

ESET and SBS 2008 Issues, Part 2

November 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off

In our continuing saga of a quack that had gone to the dogs, we pick up where we left off last. Since the customer had been using POP email, the inability to use Exchange was a problem but not critical. After 2 months of ESET not being able to solve the issue we ramped up [...]

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Tags: E-Mail Issues · Internet · Networking · Software

Delivering Fraud-as-a-Service (FaaS)

June 14th, 2010 · Comments Off

It was bound to happen: on-demand, web-based fraud that mirrors the efficiency, sophistication, and universality of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In his recent white paper, entitled “Fraud Trends in 2010,” Rick Van Luvender, Director of First Data’s InfoSec Incident Response Center, has forever characterized this thriving underground economy as Fraud-as-a-Service, or FaaS.

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Tags: Internet · Security