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Category Archives: Internet
Protecting your customers credit information
This is a guest article by Mercury Payment Processing, a company I represent.
The one comfort about large-scale data breaches is that there are often lessons that can be learned. In the case of Target’s breach, customer data was reportedly compromised by malware installed at the POS. Mercury’s Chief Information Security Officer Jim Maloney notes that merchants commonly overlook the following steps. While there is no guarantee your merchants can avoid all security risks, advising them on the following items can assist in mitigating security risks. Continue reading
Microsoft and Google – are they big brother?
When setting up a new computer or new accounts with either company they ask for a lot of information, and then in their user agreements, they take a lot of liberty with what they can do. Both insist upon your name, birthday, cell phone “in case you lose your password”, your zip code. Seems like a lot of information, enough for ID theft actually. Continue reading
The Weekly Geek has gone .MOBI
Now you should be able to access our site and articles on your tablet and phones.
Let me know how this is working for you!
Ninite, Installing needed programs the easy way
So you are building a new PC or reinstalling your current computer. Great for you! Once you have installed Windows and the Motherboard / hardware drivers you know you need Adobe Reader, Flash Player, JAVA and a dozen other common programs.
Well instead of spending the next 3 hours going to each web site and downloading one at a time, let’s go to a web site that has most of these in one place. Ok, maybe not all in one place but they have a downloader that goes out and grabs them for you. Continue reading