Tech Talk by Roland Schorr & Tower

#5 – Count the Doors How many ways into your network are there? Are you sure? One problem cropping up in corporate networks are users who bring their own wireless access points to the office and set them up so that they can roam wirelessly with their… more »

#4 – Make Sure Remote Users Have Locks Broadband access has become ubiquitous and we all support users who log in from home to access e-mail, documents and other office systems.  If those systems are not secure then they become a potential entry poin… more »

So as you read the other day SuddenLink Communications whiffed my install last Thursday leaving me with no Internet for (so far) 6 days (and counting).  Because I have a curious need to actually get some work done, and I was getting tired of Frappacinos… more »

This edition of the Monday Morning Technology is brought to you by SuddenLink Communications.  Well, no, not exactly...actually it's almost NOT brought to you at all because of SuddenLink. We moved our Flagstaff office last week and we had an install a… more »

Intel is 43 years old today and as a present to them...here's today's Monday Morning Technologist. Got Java? Security experts say that as many as 70% of the biggest exploits they're seeing in the wild are coming thru Sun's Java software which is insta… more »

The third in our ongoing series of tips to help you improve the security of your systems. The link to the full article is above. #3 – Lock The Doors Too often we focus so closely on securing our systems with passwords that we forget that we need to… more »

Now that we've gotten away from short easily broken passwords let's talk about how we keep our passphrases SECURE. #2 – Keep Your Passphrases Private A passphrase shared is compromised.  A compromised passphrase has to be changed. That has to be ingra… more »

I thought it might be interesting and timely (and save me having to write totally new posts, if I'm honest) to excerpt some content from one of my articles: "The 12 Things You Can Do NOW To Improve Your Security.  The full article is linked to above, bu… more »

July is well under-way and it's time for another Monday Morning Technologist! Reports of the Death of the Desktop Have Been Slightly Exaggerated Lately tablet-mania has folks euphorically declaring the desktop dead...but hold on just a second. Yes, it… more »

Ever since last weekend's maelstrom of concern about Dropbox's Terms of Service they've been gradually improving their TOS to try and address some of the concerns.  The concerns appear to have landed on two levels: Artists and other intelletual prope… more »

Happy 4th of July!  This may be a quick Monday Morning Technologist because...frankly...most of you are too busy BBQing to care. Dropbox Redux The hot story around here the last couple of days has been the Dropbox Terms of Service kerfluffle.  If you… more »

Over the last couple of days there has been a bit of a buzz about Dropbox's updated terms of service. Thousands of you have read the post I did yesterday on the subject for example.  In response Dropbox has come back with a blog post to clarify what the… more »

There have been few services getting as much contention lately as Dropbox.  First they implied that they couldn't read the contents of your files that you uploaded to Dropbox. Then they backed off that stance and rephrased it to mean that they're "not a… more »