A new study just released by Symantec shows that over the last 12 months cyber crime has cost consumers and businesses alike upwards of $110 billion. While this figure may seem quite high the average cost per person that becomes infected is roughly $197 and when looking at figures from within the United States it…
Thomas Fox
Disaster recovery planning is important to all businesses. It is what allows you to conduct business after a disaster in a timely manner. I have seen businesses with no plans for disaster planning recover from a catastrophe, it was painful and expensive. Disaster recovery in the cloud is great because, DR requires a lot of…
Windows 7 has just passed Windows XP as the most used operating system on computers. We have been talking about Windows 7 and how it has slowly been replacing Windows XP over the years but now it is the most widely used OS.Windows XP has been aging in the recent years very quickly. There are…
Paying with your phone seems like something out of a Sci-Fi movie only a decade ago. Today over 55 million transactions have taken place at Starbucks alone. Paying with your phone makes many new conveniences available. Paying with your phone allows you to combine your loyalty card with your payment type. For instance you can…
With Windows 8 coming soon hardware vendors are gearing up to complete with the latest and greatest hardware to run it on. Just this week Intel announced that it is going to be selling a tablet based device that will allow users to do pretty much anything they can do on their computers.The new table…
Google Map Maker allows you to add and update geographic information for anyone to see in Google Maps and Google Earth. By sharing information about the places you know, like businesses in your town or places in your school campus, you can ensure that the map accurately reflects the world around you. Your updates will be reviewed and…
With Microsoft coming out with their own tablet to compete in this aggressive new market there are numerous rumors floating around about price point, features, etc. Microsoft has been very secretive about its price point and also about some of the features they are planning to offer.Rumors have put these new tablets produced entirely by…
Microsoft has just released its latest tool that is able to give you a better understanding of the impact of change in any aspect to your operating system. This tool is call Attack Surface Analyzer, and it does just what it says. It has just been released in as a beta. This software will aide in identifying vulnerabilities that…
According to Kaspersky a new form of malware has been released on the Internet. Gauss, which they say appears to have come from the same hackers as Flame and Stuxnet, is designed to capture unsuspecting users passwords for online banking and other confidential information.They have found several ways to detect this malware at this point…
Google is helping out the world in times of crisis by launching a new project called Google People Finder. If there is a crisis in your area, Google People finder will help you report a person or persons missing. Think of this as an Internet-based Red Cross. From here anyone with any information can add…
As time goes on and technology becomes better everyday, so does malware. Malware is malicious software, this is any application that either does not do what is says or has a malicious intent. Viruses, spy-ware, ransom-ware are all types of malicious software.Anti-malware is always behind viruses in the wild, this is because a virus scanner can only…
Google just updated one of the programs within their popular Google Docs platform. Google Spreadsheets now has the ability to have cells locked down so that it prevents a document from having those ranges changed. This new feature is especially useful Google says when multiple users are working on the same document so the locked…