There is no argument about a necessity to protect your computer. As anti-virus solutions advance, so do the criminals who design computer malware and viruses. It seems that as soon as the new computer virus definitions get updated on your anti-virus program, new viruses come into play. Every day more advanced viruses hit the internet […]
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A team of hackers has managed to crack more than 14,800 supposedly random hashed (encrypted) passwords -90% from a list of 16,449. This act was part of a hacking experiment for a technology website Ars Technica. So, you think you have a strong password? The success rate for each hacker ranged from 62% to 90%,
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE powersolution.com Earns CompTIA Managed Services Trustmark™ Validation that powersolution.com uses industry accepted security best practices Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ May 20, 2013 – Managed Service Provider powersolution.com has received the CompTIA Managed ServicesTrustmark™. CompTIA verified our documentation to support the above criteria, and reviewed the use of automated tools and systems to deliver managed
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Yet, it’s true—there are still some people that hesitate to use cloud-based software and one of their primary concerns about the cloud focuses on data security. In a recent survey of 4,500 high-level IT professionals in 83 countries, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) found that security risk is the most widely cited
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The US Justice Department said Hamza Bendelladj, 24, who was known by his alias “Bx1,” an Algerian sought in connection with the computer malware designed to compromise personal identity and financial information, such as online banking credentials, credit card details, usernames, passwords and other personally identifiable information, would face charges in federal court in Atlanta,
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This week’s collection of news around computer and information technology: Our Internet privacy is at risk — but not dead (yet) Congress is expected to modernize the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, increasing judicial oversight over law enforcement and treating data stored in the cloud the same as if it were stored on our
So, do you think your employees may be stealing your business IP? Do they even realize it? I came across a great resource from Symantec – a whitepaper titled “What’s Yours is Mine: How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at risk”. Data listed in the whitepaper is based on the survey was conducted by
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Most of us are aware of cloud computing – and even those who are not, are using the Cloud every day. So, what is considered a Cloud Computing? Term “The Cloud” is a common shorthand for a provided cloud computing service, or an aggregation of all existing cloud services. Cloud computing fundamentally allows for a
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Here is a perfect illustration to Mistake #5 from our previously published Are You Too Trusting? 5 Common Computer Security Mistakes every SMB owner makes blog article. For those of us who think that small business owners should not worry about becoming cyber-crime victims, a news comes from Marysville, Ohio: a report from a private
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You are probably making them – some, if not all the mistakes on this list. When you own a small business, it is easy to become a victim of common computer threats. After all – you are in business doing something other than keeping a vigil over your computer. You are a real expert in
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The latest market forecasts for cloud computing are predicting big growth in the industry, reaching reaching $270 billion by the year 2020, as much as 30%. More and more people adopt the latest technology to store information in a virtual space. For a small or medium-sized businesses, outsourcing IT to the cloud alleviates the need
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been vaguely hinting about developing Facebook’s own social search engine for some time now. During TechCrunch Disrupt conference back in in September of 2011, Zuckerberg admitted having a dedicated team at Facebook working on the project, so that Facebook can function as a search engine, competing with Google. Well, hinting
In many small businesses, IT is not a top priority. Typically, the IT staff is outsourced to another company that handles anything and everything technology based. This creates a disconnect between the organization and their IT. When annual budgets are drafted, the IT department usually gets left out. Budgeting for IT is extremely important. Not
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As you know, New Jersey and New York area, among others in the world, have been hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, and some of the small businesses were not able to restore power to their facilities – and some are still out of electricity. One of the best options to keep your business email up
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Back in September FBI officially posted a warning about a Fake FBI scam (you may remember it from our Ransomware article): “There is a new ‘drive-by’ virus on the Internet, and it often carries a fake message—and fine—purportedly from the FBI. Reveton is described as drive-by malware because unlike many viruses—which activate when users open
High-risk medical technology has been found to be infected by computer viruses and malware, health and security experts stated. The warnings were given as part of a panel discussion in Washington DC, as reported by Technology Review from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Here is one example of how the systems can be affected by viruses
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Ransomware (also known as cryptoviruses, cryptotrojans or cryptoworms) comprises a class of malware, or a virus which restricts access to the computer system that it infects. In addition it demands a payment, which is basically a ransom in order for the restriction to be resolved. Complexity of ransomware varies: from basic HTML pages acting as
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First, let me start with a disclaimer: do not try this at home! What I mean by it – please, run your PC purchase consideration by your IT support company BEFORE you actually head to the store. Sometimes we all make an impulse buy – something looked great and promised to be a cheap buy
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On September 26th and 27th, New Orleans played host to MSPs and IT service providers who want to get the most from their commitment to GFI MAX (currently known as MAXfocus™ by LOGICnow™). The seven business sessions of the conference focused on practical topics for MSPs and IT service providers: Managed online backup Website monitoring
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Yes, they are “playing tag” with each other – while keeping us “updated” on what’s going on. Update on : Millions of sites hosted on GoDaddy’s platform affected by Anonymous hack and Taken Down GoDaddy Hosted Websites Are Coming Back Up It is reported by GoDaddy to be an internal issue. So Anonymous member who
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“We’re still working. Getting closer to normal. Thanks for all your patience and understanding.” “Most customer hosted sites are back online. We’re working out the last few kinks for our site & control centers. No customer data was compromised.” – these are the latest Facebook posts on GoDaddy’s page. “Most customer hosted sites back online.
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One of the Anonymous members is taking responsibility for web hosting giant GoDaddy experiencing an outage. Many, possibly millions of sites, including GoDaddy’s own are down at this time. A Facebook post from GoDaddy account said: “Status Alert: Hey, all. We’re aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We’re working on it.”
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Walking in the hallways of the mall by the Sheraton hotel in Boston, where I am staying for the duration of the Hubspot Inbound 2012 event, I spotted something I have not seen before, yet something vaguely familiar. Four squares of popular colors, together. Strangely, my brain did not register it until I actually saw
Microsoft Logo Change – would it fail where others have succeeded? read more »
You may have noticed a news resurfacing on every media station lately: almost 70,000 of US internet users were expected to lose their internet connection on Monday July 9th, 2012. News Flashback: in November 2011 we were all warned by FBI about DNSChanger, a malicious software designed to have your browsing experience go haywire. What
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Microsoft has developed a Windows tablet computer of its own design – Surface. The announcement of Surface tablets comes at a time when mobile devices security is on everyone’s mind. Microsoft has not been synonymous with security for quite some time. At a conference that took place on June 19, 2012, Collin Davis, senior director
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It’s been five years since Google officially announced malware and phishing protection through Safe Browsing initiative. 600 million users qre protected through built-in protection for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, where we show several million warnings every day to Internet users. You may have seen our telltale red warnings pop up — when you do, please
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I recently came across an article that highlighted a five doctor, Arizona based cardiac surgery practice, that was fined $100,000 by the Division of Health and Human Services (HHS) for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. The small firm was keeping their patient appointment calendars on a public
HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules Compliancy is a Must! read more »
As computer network service and support specialists, we provide help and advice to people and organizations using computer software or equipment. Technical support specialists typically support information technology (IT) employees within an organization and monitor their IT environment, providing Managed IT Services. We help your staff analyze, troubleshoot, and evaluate computer network problems. Our help-desk
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A Network Administrator is an IT person that is responsible for the maintenance of computer hardware and software systems that make up a computer network. That includes the maintenance and monitoring of active data network infrastructure and related network equipment such as PCs, servers, user devices, etc. Network Administrators duties are generally focused on network
Imagine a computer that lets you swap out parts without any tools. Easily add a hard drive, upgrade memory, or access the graphics card just by snapping it open. HP revealed Z1 workstation – and what a sleek little thing it is!!! The only all-in-one workstation with quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors, 27” LED-backlit display that
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People seem to be able to fear anything. Pick an item – and chances are, there is a phobia that is designed just for that. Nomophobia – one of the latest to join the rank of human conditions – is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. In fact, this term it is
The business model behind managed security services was commonplace among enterprise level companies, provided by large IT security experts. The model was later adapted to fit medium sized and smaller companies (SMBs ) by the value-added reseller (VAR) community, either specializing in managed security or offering it as an extension to their managed IT service
Emails and Spam Facts: 60 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam. Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2. 9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam. Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they
We focus on advising New Jersey businesses on how best to use IT to meet their business goals and objectives. In addition to providing research-based IT consulting, we offer advice, estimates, implementation, project management, deployment, and administration of your IT systems. These offerings are part of our Managed Services for small to medium-size businesses, providing
You may feel that all of your software and programs are legitimate and your licensing is up-to date, but you may be wrong. If you have that great music CD your colleague burned for you, or that useful program that your cousin’s nephew brought from his previous job he was let go from and you
Virtually all organizations rely on IT to conduct business and run efficiently. Many organizations often turn to IT professionals for computer network support when faced with limitations of the internal resources to effectively design, implement, or manage the products and systems that they need. (Looking for IT professionals in New Jersey?) Business Computer Systems Design
A computer network, often simply referred to as “network“, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of data and resources. In a network, at least one process in one device is able to send and receive data to and from at least one process residing in a
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North Jersey hospitals are planning to share patient medical records electronically. It has been a long-anticipated move that should lower costs and improve patient care. Nine hospitals, including St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne, Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, have joined a network that will be the first
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It was a bit of a gloomy morning today, but my commute was cheered up by a funny comedy skit by Don Friesen. This particular skit – “Inexplicable” (a.k.a. “Tech Support” on LaughUSA) is about Don’s struggle with IT support. I thought I’d share it just for fun – and remember, if you are in
It seems that a lot of small business companies have a preconceived vision of the world of IT for small business. It seems that a proverbial “IT Guy” with “Break/Fix” hourly support is still much of a stereotype, and I would like to discuss with you why it is important to step out of that
Learn how you may be putting your office and your business at risk every day OK, I admit it: the computer cannot do the damage all by itself. You, as a computer user, are responsible for what you do with it. Companies big and small are getting compromised every day; some by a random virus,
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Many companies have legacy systems running within their organization. These systems may be an old Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) package that may even still run on a mainframe. The software package in use today may have suited your organizations needs when it was first developed, but today your organization may
Just in time for Halloween something I thought was worth sharing. In addition to Simon Pierro’s talent – the marvels of modern technology make it even better! iPad features to shine, as ever. It is the first time I witness someone combining witty tricks with computer technology, meant for the stage presentation or, in this
Fate took a bite out of Apple. I am not going to write who and what Steve Jobs was. There is no need for it. I am not going to describe his legacy in the industry and the world. I just want to share a personal story as my part in the tributes that are
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Besides of my take on these basic five-points tips, there is a growing plethora of advice on securing smartphones. And there is a reason why: we are all overly connected to the wireless world, and Business Intelligence makes it’s way into our mobile devices. Our phones, tables and other mobile devices all have a chock
If you are like most small businesses, you probably acquire computers, phones, and software in a random, crisis-of-the-moment fashion. You invest in what you think you need when your business operations demand it. But at some point, this bandage method of acquiring technology is going to cost you more in downtime, system errors, breakdowns, and
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You may not have a missing tooth and a dagger, but I am willing to bet you are a pirate. “Who, me?” – you say. Yes. You. A pirate. As previously covered in another article Open Source to Beat Global Software Piracy definition of piracy is still vague if you take a variety of laws,
Back in in 2005, Sony-BMG released music CD’s with digital rights management (DRM) software developed by two independent companies. In late 2005, it was discovered that the software installed a root kit onto user’s computer, leaving the computer open to security attacks. The two vendors in this situation were XCP and MediaMax. Both vendors produced
powersolution.com, a New Jersey-based MSP has been providing managed computer network services in New Jersey since 1996, delivering proven IT service methods to New Jersey and New York small and medium-size businesses in need of managed computer support services. We are focusing on boosting computers’ performance, tightening network security and extending the life of organizations’
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Global Piracy is keeping me up at night lately. And not for the reasons you may be thinking of. According to Global Software Piracy Study by Business Software Alliance (BSA) published in May of 2006, thirty-five percent of the packaged software installed on personal computers worldwide in 2005 was illegal, supposedly amounting to $34 billion
