Tech Tips From a NYC System Administrator
Problem: User has a Blackberry. Is part of the company’s BES. Syncing wirelessly is the company’s default setting when deploying Blackberries. This particular user did not have the option. When I checked her Wireless Sync settings under the Contacts–> Options — >Desktop, it said “Not Available”. I tried the following steps: 1. From your Blackberry,…
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Time to revisit your facebook privacy settings again: Facebook has announced that developers of Facebook apps can now gather the personal contact information from their users. Read more…Rogue Facebook apps can now access your home address and mobile phone number | Naked Security.
President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today. If it weren’t for the Wikileaks debacle (nice security there guys!), the fact that government programs can’t be financed properly (Social Security, Medicare, the Postal…
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Get used to it. Moving things to the “Cloud” is becoming more popular. So will the data breaches… Company data belonging to customers of Microsoft’s hosted business suite BPOS has been accessed and downloaded by other users of the software. Read more…Microsoft BPOS cloud service hit with data breach – Computerworld.
We know that Gawker Media had it’s databases hacked, releasing millions of usernames and passwords. Now spammers/hackers are taking advantage of that story to send out spam emails like this: Beware…
From TechCrunch: Developer Eric Butler has exposed the soft underbelly of the web with his new Firefox extension, Firesheep, which will let you essentially eavesdrop on any open Wi-Fi network and capture users’ cookies. As Butler explains in his post, “As soon as anyone on the network visits an insecure website known to Firesheep, their…
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Problem: Mapped shared network folder would intermittently disconnect itself, and user could not remap it. When trying to remap it, user would get one of the following errors messages: “Local device name is already in use” “The drive could not be mapped because no network was found” “The [\\Server Name\Folder] is not accessible. You might…
So true…
Too bad we can’t get his kind of info on ALL the products we buy: Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory’s 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple nonstop. Read…
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I used to be afraid of Google. Now, I’m more afraid of Facebook. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal judge to dismiss Facebook’s claims that criminal law is violated when its users opt for an add-on service that helps them aggregate their information from a variety of social networking sites. In a…
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