Facebook, the social networking site which had just recently surpassed Google as a web destination where people spend more time, suffered an outage today that made it extremely slow or unavailable to people for almost 2.5 hours. Facebook Engineering apologized for the downtime and explained in detail the cause of the problem. The short version: An automated validation of … [Read more...]
Downtime Cost Calculator
Storagepipe, the same company behind the informative video of how data protection has changed, has an intriguing webapp utility called the Downtime Cost Calculator. The calculator can be useful for monetizing the financial costs of unplanned downtime and that information can help when developing a budget for IT. The calculated information is also helpful in disaster recovery … [Read more...]
WinMHR – A Free Malware Detector
Check out the latest article over at Freewaregenius. I've written an article that details WinMHR, a free malware detector that can work in conjunction with your current antivirus solution to improve your computer security. WinMHR is completely free and can detect files known to be related to malware. Read the rest of the details over at Freewaregenius: WinMHR - A Free Malware … [Read more...]
Adobe Releases Flash Player v. 10.1.85.3
The fully patched Adobe Flash Player 10.1.85.3 is now available from Adobe. The accelerated release of this patch, as I blogged yesterday, was sped up to address the issues brought up with vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. From the Security Bulletin: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, … [Read more...]
Remove the Facebook Like Button From All Sites
I don't have a Facebook account and it annoys me when I get redirected there just in my daily browsing (polls, article links, and others) and I can't participate or it requires a few extra clicks to get where I want. Even more annoying than those redirects are having to see the Facebook Like button on tons of different pages. I don't care how many people like something else … [Read more...]