Norton Ghost has moved on to the next life after Symantec pulled the plug on the software. Symantec has discontinued selling Norton Ghost as of yesterday. Support for the product, however, will continue until June 30, 2014 via chat and the online knowledge base. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2013
Salute brings Ctrl+Alt+Delete shortcuts to Macs
Ctrl+Alt+Del has thankfully become less prevalent in the Windows world. It certainly still has its uses though. Back in its hay day, the keyboard command even received a nickname like the 'three-finger salute'. Developer of various Mac utilities Two Canoes has created an open source counterpart for Mac OS X with 'Salute'. It allows you to press Ctrl-Command-Delete in order to … [Read more...]
Neustar on DDoS Protection [infographic]
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Neustar has created their annual report on DDoS attack and impact survey. Distributed Denial of Service attacks are harder to mitigate than DoS attacks and the results can me your website or other servers are down as a result. This can make it impossible for your customers to do business with you and cost an organization time, effort, and money. The nice thing about Neustar's … [Read more...]
Extending a projector’s lamp life
Now that projectors have become more affordable than ever, a potential buyer may become easily overwhelmed when looking at the dozens of different options available. Each individual projector has its own features: picture quality, color depth, lamp life, etc. One of the most important concerns of new projector owners is lamp life. On average, the normal range of expected lamp … [Read more...]
Social engineering examples, methods, and stats [infographic]
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Firewalls, antivirus programs, and other security measures protect our systems and data from unauthorized access. Unfortunately, there is still a means to access the data that requires no technical exploits. Humans being kind or open to manipulation can allow social engineers to get the information they want. By using the credentials of somebody that should have access they are … [Read more...]