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By On March 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Its been a while since I blogged as I have been spending a lot of time looking for an angle to take advantage of the current economic crisis. There is little doubt in my mind that this is a prime time to do something so I have been working on generating passive income targeting small [...]

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Step by Step In Dealing With Conficker

By On February 3, 2009 · 8 Comments

This will turn out to be a “trojan horse” literally if actions are not taken to prevent it from spreading within the corporate network.

Below are step by step instructions on mitigating the risk of the threat that “Conficker”/”Downandup” poses.

Symptoms

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Symptoms to help you determine if you are infected

Account lockout [...]

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Worm Uses Social Engineering

By On January 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

A new worm has hit the Internet and its taking its toll on computers worldwide. It has been reported that over 9 million computers have already been infected.

The worm called “Downandup”, “Conficker” or “Kido” by different anti-virus vendors uses the Microsoft vulnerability which I blogged about here (Worm Takes Advantage Of Microsoft [...]

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Keeping The Network Clean

By On January 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In today’s environment of mobile computing and the increasing integration of consumer electronics with the corporate network, it has become a necessity to plan accordingly in order to mitigate the risk this presents.

Whether it be an iPhone or guest laptop connecting via wireless or using an unused network port, brings new challenges to [...]

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