If you have a moment to spare, could you pop over to our listing on Thumbtack.com and make a few comments about us? Greenville & Upstate Computer Service and Sales We are trying to increase awareness of what Homeland Secure IT does, and Thumbtack offers another resource that will do just that. Our listing there shows that we do your typical …
SECURE IT ALERT: Update your Adobe Shockwave – Mac users, this means you too…
Adobe released a security bulletin this week warning of nine critical vulnerabilities that affect Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.3.633 and earlier for Windows and Macintosh. That bulletin can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-02.html Basically, it is the same old and busted story… If you are running an unpatched, and therefore vulnerable version of Shockwave Player, and you happen to visit a website …
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Yesterday went by faster than normal thanks to the BMW Performance Driving School
We took off towards the “Rat Race” track first, which was a mostly flat surface, partially wet from the rains the previous evening and from sprinklers that run continuously. The car was the ever popular 3 series sedan with all the options. One thing different about from how you normally drive it on the street was that the traction control …
Happy Valentine’s Day from Microsoft!
Yeah yeah, it’s just patches… This is from our friends over on the WatchGuard Security Center: Most people get flowers, chocolates, and cards for Valentine’s Day, but next Tuesday Microsoft IT professionals can expect a big box of patches. According to their advanced notification post for February, Microsoft will release nine security bulletins next Tuesday, February 14th. The bulletins deliver updates …
Are you sticking to that new year’s resolution to backup your computer or server data?
You were lucky enough to make it through 2011 without a catastrophic failure of a hard drive, data corruption, loss of a notebook computer, etc, but will 2012 be so kind? If you are like so many people and businesses we work with, you are NOT backing up your data. Maybe it is too much trouble, or too expensive. …
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Homeland Secure IT’s #LeapIntoIT Kindle Fire Giveaway will let one of our Upstate, SC friends get a new toy!
It’s that time again! Time for us to have some fun, and help one of our Upstate, SC friends get something cool to play with. We’ve given away stuff before, like Trend Micro anti-virus, a wireless IP security camera, a Cisco Flip Mino HD video camera, Microsoft Office 2010, and even a Microsoft X-BOX 360, but this is likely the …
Are you using pcAnywhere? Symantec says to cut that out… #vulnerbilities #hax0rz
If you are using pcAnywhere to remotely access your computer, you probably want to go read the “pcAnywhere Security Recommendations” posted by Symantec. http://www.symantec.com/connect/sites/default/files/pcAnywhere%20Security%20Recommendations%20WP_01_23_Final.pdf The danger is that someone so inclined could potentially access your computer through vulnerabilities exposed from old source code, and gain full access to your computer, files and your network. To sum it up, disabling pcAnywhere …
Suddenly people cannot get to the internet at my business
So you have been cruising along at your business for years and all has been great, but now, out of the blue, people on your network are having trouble viewing websites. You found that if you reboot that firewall (pull the plug on the thing since there is no power supply) that YOU get back online right away, but then …
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for January 2012 – Happy New Year!
Microsoft rings in the new year with updates! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! The Advance Notification outlines 7 bulletins that cover updates from “important” to “critical” in Microsoft Windows (XP / Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008) and Microsoft Developer Tools & Software. Most will require a restart, or at least MAY require a restart. On the Advance Notification page you …
’twas the night before Christmas… Annual computer version post
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas – Computer Version I first read this story on a University of Arkansas computer system sometime before 1985 and promptly typed it up and put it on my BBS (Non-Prophet BBS) for people to read. I have sent it in email, and “snail mail” for the last 25 years or so… I still get …