As another school year begins, staff and students will be bringing their educational tools like laptops, tablets and smart phones into the schools and classrooms. They will as well be using the Internet and sharing files as always. The last stateme... Read the rest of the entry »
With Summer TRIO Programs about to begin, I thought it might be a good idea to review some simple practices that can help your staff and students to avoid the persistent threats that can create total havoc due to computer malware (i.e. malicious softwa... Read the rest of the entry »
With the growth of utilities like FireSheep, people can view login information on unencrypted network connections. Stealing login information opens the door to identity theft and using compromised accounts for SPAM and Denial of Service (DOS) attacks... Read the rest of the entry »
As mentioned in an earlier post, encryption can play an important role in protecting sensitive data that may be on your computer workstation, laptop or backup drives. Encryption makes data unreadable unless you have the key that unscrambles the infor... Read the rest of the entry »
As many of you know there are a lot of online file synchronization solutions out there that help you keep files and data updated and backed up. Some of the ones that have been discussed in various presentations include: Dropbox – http://www.dr... Read the rest of the entry »