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Our friends at Intel have provided an excellent public service by providing a password checking site that will grade the quality of your password. https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/forms/passwordwin.html It is interesting to try different passwords and see how long each would take to hack. One thing that very quickly becomes obvious is that length is far more important…

The debate on net neutrality is raging from Washington to Silicon Valley right now. For those not up on the latest geek terms, the net neutrality debate is around whether internet service providers should be allowed to create ‘electronic toll roads’ on the Internet that would allow companies to pay extra fees in order to…

Approximately 2 hours ago, Microsoft released a fix for all versions of Internet Explorer that removes the current vulnerability allowing an attacker the same rights as the user of a compromised computer. You can read the full release here (WARNING! Serious techie stuff ahead – proceed with caution): https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms14-021 We have already initiated a campaign…

On Saturday night, Microsoft reported a new security flaw in Internet Explorer (versions 6 through 11) which when exploited can allow an attacker to have access to anything that the user account accessing the website has access to. As of now, the flaw is unpatched. Microsoft has not yet announced if they are going to…

In a previous blog post, we pointed out that your data in the cloud may not be as safe as you thought it was. As many of the stakeholders at the organizations where our IT Consultants serve in the role of virtual CIO read the post, they asked us how they could still take advantage…