This morning I awoke to my computer complaining that it couldn’t find a bootable volume. Evidently it had rebooted itself. Oh no! Dusted out the case interior and booted right up. About an hour later, same thing, restarted itself then no bootable volume. I didn’t see it happen and there […]
Jim
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Want to know how strong your password is? Steve Gibson’s Interactive Brute Force Password Search Space Calculator shows how dramatically the time-to-crack lengthens with every additional character in your password, especially if one of them is a symbol rather than a letter or number. Worst-case scenario with almost unlimited computing […]
We’re tracking a problem with Outlook 2010 clients in a domain environment receiving a pop-up dialog “Insert a smart card” when launching Outlook. It also reoccurs while Outlook is open. Mail flow is not affected. Looks like it’s related to the recent Microsoft Update KB2553248 released yesterday, April 10, 2012. […]
Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. It’s also used to infect computers with Viruses and Malware. Read more about it at Wikipedia. Recently, I have seen some very convincing […]
It may be convenient to purchase electronic books through Apple’s iBookstore, but in most cases you’ll be paying too much. In fact, the Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of […]