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I almost fell for it…

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

It’s scary how easy is to be snared in an email “phishing” attempt. I have told you how to avoid phishing attempts several times in the past. Now get this - I almost fell for one of these scams just last week.

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Pegasus Email Client Being Flagged as a Trojan…

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Over the years I have highly recommended the Pegasus email client. I still do if you are an advanced user.
David Harris the creator of Pegasus sent this email that talks about Norton Antivirus flagging Pegasus as a Trojan. It is not. If you use Pegasus and Norton read this note carefully and protect yourself.
The Pegasus […]

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TNPC More on Security…

Friday, May 18th, 2007

TNPC Newsletter
by Dan Butler
17 May 2007
Last issue we talked about routers in general and default
passwords in particular. The advice to change your default
password carries over to everything you do. Bank accounts,
online accounts, email accounts, your ISP account and many more.
Always change the default password in any account. You should
also consider your PIN numbers as passwords […]

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Just How Widespread are Security Breaches?

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Here is some interesting data on what is happening to your private information. etiolated.org shows graphs and other statistical data on security breaches. You will find it interesting.
http://www.etiolated.org/

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Fingerprinted for Selling Your Music CD’s?

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Interesting article at ars technica on laws popping up around the U.S. concerning the sale of used music CD’s to Pawn shops and used music stores. It is really a bit depressing. I’m all for avoiding piracy of digital goods but at some point it just gets silly.
Read this article for yourself here

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TSA Loses Hard Drive…

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Story on how a portable hard drive with information on 100,000 people was gone missing at the TSA.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070505/D8OTUCJ80.html
How do these things keep happening? And why isn’t the first thing we here something like “Don’t worry. We keep that sort of data encrypted and the chances of an outsider are slim.” Why don’t we hear […]

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TNPC One crucial security tweak…

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

TNPC Newsletter
by Dan Butler
02 May, 2007
Hello
We have entered the “interesting” weather time of year here in
Texas. Tornados, thunder storms, hail, high winds, and more. It
certainly keeps things interesting.
This issue an easy to implement security tip, a helpful website
indirectly related to your productivity, and a helpful Word for
Windows tweak, a book review.
Coming soon - a special […]

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When Urban Legends Become True

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

For years emails have been passed around claiming that forwarding email will generate money for your or some popular cause. One of the more popular ones claims that if you forward a message Bill Gates or Microsoft will send you money. You can read more about this at Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.asp
Now it looks like urban legend becomes […]

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Microsoft Retail Refund Guidelines

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Have you purchased a Microsoft product at the store and find yourself unhappy with it? They have a retail refund policy. You don’t hear much about it but you may find it useful some day. Note this policy is for retail purchases and not bulk business purchases.
Found this helpful page at Microsoft’s web site. It […]

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Practical Backups

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

This recording is from a teleconference on 6:03 PM 8 February 2007. We talked about ways to backup your critical working data. This information is not about keeping a full backup of your system and data. The focus was on ways to have your critical data available quickly when you are unable to access […]

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