Category: Security

Help-I’m Getting Spam from Myself! Spam Prevention

Here’s another little spam prevention tip- The email is most likely using a forged ‘from’ address- meaning it probably does not originate from your machine, or even your network. Someone has found your email address somewhere, created a spam email, and is using your address as the ‘from’ address. Sadly, this is easy to do. If this is the case,

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Security- Check your Passwords (Yes, again!)

Passwords should evolve -Until we find something better! I was having a look recently at an interesting article on Ars Technica about how a normal guy with no particular hacking skills was able to break some reasonably complex passwords. It’s scary stuff, and should make us all have another look at this aspect of security. I’ve recently been evaluating a free

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Apple Disables Java!

  … and nobody notices. Well, not quite. I did have one client put out because they swap files with someone who uses a Java based file loader. What’s more interesting is how Apple disabled it. Like most of you (OK big assumption) I ignored the fact that Apple has a technology they call Xprotect. This is a mechanism whereby

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