It seems like every week still a story comes across my desk about “Laptop with sensitive data stolen… no encrypted hard drive”. Well after 26 years, one thing I have learned is that people (big companies especially) learn slowly. I mean, there have been countless damaging stories and cases of actual money paid out because […]

For many years now, the “IT” industry has been focused mainly on “securing the network”. The idea here being that the way the company secures it’s information assets is like the way it secures its physical assets… computers outside the corporate building can’t get onto the corporate network, which where all of the corporate data […]

Today I finally found in my news reader an article that discusses a credible vulnerability in Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. Windows Vista really has been reasonably secure thus far… most vulnerabilities have taken very sophisticated attacks to exploit and have been terribly threatening in general. However this one could in fact be a […]

We all see phishing emails all the time these days. In fact, I just cleaned out probably 300+ from the 4000 spam emails in my customer’s spam filter this morning. A phishing email is an email that is faked from a bank or similar in order to get you log into a fake site so […]

Anybody in the tech business these days spends (or doesn’t but should be spending) a lot of time on security. Depending on who your guy (girl) is, you sacrifice a significant amount of functionality and/or flexibility in the name of remaining secure. At Trimtab, we do tend run our businesses on the secure side, but […]

We are currently in the process of installing and integrating a new employee time keeping system for a retail customer. The challenge they face is that employee time tracking is manually intensive process, having to tabulate all of the old style punch cards and then turnaround and enter that information by hand into their payroll […]

Sorry Mac fanboys and fangirls out there… but I just don’t buy the “Macs are virus, spyware, and malware free” talk that comes from both the highly committed Mac “user community” and Apple itself (including in the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials that have become so popular.
There has been an absolute barrage of […]

Just as a warning to anyone out there who has not yet upgraded to Internet Explorer 7 (I know many haven’t because of issues with older versions of Quickbooks and similar applications), Microsoft is going to push the upgrade to IE7 through the Microsoft automatic update process. So, if you have automatic updates turned on […]

Maybe it is just me, but there has been so little spam in our Exchange (Outlook Email) system spam folders the last few days that it almost has me a little worried our mail servers fell off the internet. It even tricked me a few times into testing to make sure all email is being […]

Right off today I ran into a perfect explanation of why there are so many SERIOUS technology security problems in small businesses. I was surfing around LinkedIn Answers when I ran into this question. The question comes from a small business IT consultant asking other security gurus on LinkedIn basically how to implement security given […]