How about this for saving the environment: You can OPT OUT of receiving those pesky yellow pages phone books at your location! VISIT HERE to Opt Out This will come as good news for those who strive to be green, and bad news for the yellow page providers. Of course, there are some legitimate reasons you may still wish to …
Secure IT Alert: XSS Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server Web Security Feature
Homeland Secure IT Alert for Thursday, October 14, 2010 It seems like only yesterday I was telling our friends and clients about security issues that were announced this week. Believe me, this isn’t Deja Vu all over again… It’s just another day in the life of a system administrator…. If you are running Microsoft SharePoint, especially if it has been made …
SECURE IT ALERT: A plethora of Microsoft Windows, Office and IE updates are available
Homeland Secure IT Alert for Tuesday October 12, 2010 Well folks, we have a boat load of updates this go ’round…. These updates affect Microsoft Office on both MIcrosoft Windows and Microsoft Macintosh operating systems. Then of course there are updates to the Microsoft Windows Operating System itself, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The Reader’s Digest version(tm) goes like this …
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Listen to your Asterisk / TrixBox Voice Mail WAV Email Attachments on Android Phones
Are you using an Asterisk based VoIP system and have your voice mails sent to you via email? If you are using an Android based phone, you may not be able to open these attachments within email and play them. Several forums discuss workarounds that should get you going, such as having the VoIP system convert the audio file to …
The Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack Can Save You Money!
Microsoft’s Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack offers you a three pack of licenses, allowing up to three computers in your family to upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium! It is available in either 32 or 64 bit versions. The cost is very affordable at only about 50 dollars per seat! In comparison, a single upgrade version of Windows 7 …
Microsoft Office “Home Use Program” allows your employees to use MS Office at home for $9.95
Microsoft’s Home Use Program, or “HUP” is a benefit offered to those with Microsoft’s Software Assurance, which allows you to offer your employees the latest version of the Microsoft Office suite to use at home. Let’s say you purchase 25 seats of Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus with Software Assurance from Homeland Secure IT, you can then turn around and …
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Sprint Samsung Epic 4g being used for computer service technicians – first impressions
Wanna buy a RIM Blackberry 8350i for Nextel / Sprint? We have a few for sale! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320599349838#ht_694wt_1139 In an earlier blog posts, I rambled a bit about the desire to leave the Blackberry, but why we didn’t, and then last week, I posted about finally dumping the Blackberry phones for new Android smart phones. Today I will bore you with my …
SECURE IT ALERT: Out-of-Band Bulletin Fixes Serious Microsoft .NET Framework Vulnerability
Homeland Secure IT Alert for Thursday, September 30, 2010 Microsoft has addressed an important vulnerability in another “out of band” security update this week… This one is for the Microsoft .NET Framework and it affects every Microsoft operating system across the board from Windows XP, Vista and 7 desktop, to Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, regardless of service …
Be careful when adding content filters to MDaemon or Trend Micro
About a week ago, a network administrator that our company provides assistance to contacted us with an oddball issue… All mail seemed to be working well, both in and out, except for mail coming into her domain from one company. The obvious was checked, such as the other company’s IP against all known block lists (RBLS), logs for blocked spam …
Use protection! Power Protection that is… and save your computers and electronics! #Greenville
Last night’s storms in Greenville played havoc with the sensitive computers, servers, network equipment, CCTV systems, VoIP systems and even alarm systems! At 10pm we received a call from the alarm monitoring company saying that we had multiple zones activated at my wife’s business, including a door, and several interior motion sensors! Police were dispatched, and Pamela and I rushed …