- IT Manager pays £35 on eBay for second-hand NAS box with bank information on over one million people
- A NAS device containing private bank account and credit card information on more than one million people was sold on eBay for £35. This shameful event should serve as a warning to all IT leaders. Physical security comes first! by Bill Detwiler
- SSL/TLS certificates: Perspectives helps authentication
- Self-signed SSL certificates are an authentication nightmare. A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon developed Perspectives, an application that potentially will remove some of the FUD. I'd like to explain the application and make a case for installing it. by Michael Kassner
- Return to the record you were working on when you reopen an Access form
- If you get interrupted while working on a record in an Access form, finding your way back to it can be time-consuming. Here are two ways to bookmark the current record so that you can hop straight to it when you reopen the form. by Susan Harkins
- Poll: What part of job hunting do you dread the most?
- Justin James says his least favorite aspect of looking for a job is dealing with recruiters. What part of job hunting makes you want to put off the entire process for yet another week? Let us know by taking our quick poll. by Justin James
- Bridging cultural divides in the workplace
- Cultural divides exist everywhere, from country to country, from region to region, even from workplace to workplace, but sooner or later you have to take responsibility for how you come across to the people who work around you. by Toni Bowers
- Is your company encrypting corporate data?
- In today's workplace, stealing information doesn't require a covert Special Forces team: It is often done by an employee armed with a 5 GB USB flash drive. And your unsecured, unencrypted network invites a hacker to compromise a server or workstation holding sensitive data. by Steven Warren
- Viruses and malware are out of this world, or at least off of it
- A virus designed to steal online gaming login information recently infected the International Space Station. How long before some truly dangerous malware makes it into space? by Andy Moon
- Securing your home computer
- A user recently asked me what I would recommend to keep his home computer as secure as the ones at our office. Here's the list of considerations I gave him. by Joe Rosberg
- HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more
- Justin James, who is now a member of the HTML Working Group, interviews HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson. Discover the pain points Hickson expects HTML 5 will address, his favorite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, and much more. by Justin James
- Forrester predicts business gaming will drive future apps in the enterprise
- Forrester sees a future for 'serious gaming' in which enterprise businesses will use virtual worlds and simulations for training and collaboration. See which companies are doing this already and how it could play out over the next few years. by Larry Dignan
- Video: Four trends that will transform IT over the next five years
- Gartner has cited its top 10 IT trends to watch over the next three to five years. IT leaders should put these trends on the radar to exploit them for competitive advantage. In this episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives, I share four of these trends and give you...
- Improve performance and productivity with these Vista tricks
- Greg Shultz shows you several performance and productivity enhancing tricks for Windows Vista. by Greg Shultz
- New attack vectors challenge IT security pros
- Like IT in general, the security arena is in a constant flux. New esoteric hacks can appear overnight, leaving the onus on managers and security folks to scramble to patch or mitigate the new threat. Today, I'll highlight a few of these potential attack vectors. by Paul Mah
- Bubba puts a downhome spin on Microsoft Bob
- When we talked before about Microsoft Bob, some TR members mentioned a parody called Bubba. Here's a look at Bubba and a pointer to where you can get it. by John Sheesley
- Security news roundup: Mozilla Firefox gets security boost
- This week's security events include news of a moderately critical flaw discovered in some Trend Micro products, a free add-on for Mozilla Firefox 3.0 that helps give it a security boost, and news of a major security fix for popular Linux distribution Ubuntu. by Paul Mah
- How do I... Recover a damaged Windows XP user profile?
- Greg Shultz explains how you can recover your Microsoft Windows XP user profile and your preferred operating system environment. by Greg Shultz
- How far do you let a mean employee go?
- If you had an employee whose demeanor rubbed everyone else the wrong way but who was exceptionally good at his job, what would you do? by Toni Bowers
- Is ageism a thriving prejudice?
- Employers are ultra sensitive to issues surrounding race or gender in the workplace, but the prevailing sentiment seems to be that being ageist is no big deal. by Toni Bowers
- The deadly data regression of Star Trek's redshirts
- One in seven crew members died during the USS Enterprise's five-year mission. A staggering 70 percent of those deaths went to red-shirted crew members. Here's an ELO-assisted highlight reel of the carnage. by Jay Garmon
- Avoid the danger of forged digital images: Part 2 of 2
- In Part 1, we examined the methods used to create forged digital images, images sometimes used to steal identities or misrepresent financial and background. Here we look at ways to help mitigate risk associated with acceptance of digital forgeries. by Tom Olzak
- high cpu utilization of rtvscan.exe
- We have several windows 2000 servers and bunch of windows xp clients. All the servers have norton corporate edition and xp machines have managed norton clients.Everything worked fine until installing update rollup for service pack 4 on the server. Now the rtvscan.exe will take up 50% of cpu cycles on...
- How to stop Office/Outlook 2003 from synchronizing
- This seems to be a common and frustrating problem, and I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere. My computer periodically tells me that Microsoft Office 2003 is synchronizing folders. While it's doing that - and it takes awhile - not much else ca
- The IT Strategic Plan Step-By-Step
- It's April and you are four months into your organization's fiscal year. You know that within six months you'll need to have your operating plan for the upcoming year in fairly solid shape. You also know that creating an operating plan without a longer-range strategic view is like driving a...
- How To Use the Six Laws of Persuasion during a Negotiation
- In order to be successful, you must master the persuasion process, which will enable you to deliberately create the attitude change and subsequent actions necessary for persuading others to your way of thinking. In other words, you have to be able to "sell" your ideas in order to make changes...
- IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP
- Booting Windows XP from a USB Flash drive gives you great IT support tool. For example, you can make a troubleshooting toolkit for booting and analyzing seemingly dead PCs. Or you could always have your favorite support applications at your fingertips.In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler, TechRepublic's Head Technology...
- Ad-Aware 2008 (exe)
- With the ability to scan your RAM, Registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-Aware 2008 can clean your system easily, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web.Ad-Aware 2008 includes an improved threat detection, enhanced rootkit...
- Download this project plan template
- If you've taken on a small to midsize project that doesn't warrant a full-scale plan in Microsoft Project, download this Excel spreadsheet template sent in by a TechRepublic member for quick and easy project management.
- Use these four Registry tweaks to accelerate Windows XP
- Plenty of third-party programs claim to tweak or optimize Windows. However, most of them simply make Registry edits. Here are four manual tweaks that experienced IT professionals can make to improve the speed of Windows XP.Title: Windows XP Hacks, 2nd Edition ISBN: 0596009186 Published: February 2005 Author: Preston Gralla Chapter:...
- HP StorageWorks EVA4400 Product Demo
- Before now, midsize customers settled for either an expensive and complex storage array or a low cost storage solution that lacked functionality. Now experience virtual storage with enterprise class functionality at an affordable price. View this product demo from HP on the StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array...
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 30 Day Trial
- If you're looking to take your customer relationship management to the next level, Microsoft invites you to try Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for 30 days -- free! Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is a groundbreaking new hosted solution that gives you Microsoft Dynamics CRM capabilities without the investment in IT infrastructure...
- 10 Windows XP tricks and timesavers
- Here's the latest roundup of popular Windows XP tips from our Microsoft Windows blog, ranging from gathering MAC addresses to creating custom characters to removing resource-consuming device drivers you no longer need.
- TCP/IP Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting is a necessary part of supporting any network installation. Determining and repairing problems can consume a lot of time, especially if you don't know what to do or how to do it correctly and quickly. This On Demand Web Seminar explains how you might consider troubleshooting different problems that...
- Boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive
- Almost everyone who has worked with computers for any lengthof time at all has run into at least one situation in which a problem left a PCunbootable. What if you could return the machine to a bootable state just byinserting a USB flash drive though? Believe it or not, it...
- 10 mispronunciations that make you sound stupid
- Right or wrong, people often judge you by the way you pronounce things. Say a word incorrectly and POW -- they've pegged you as a provincial, poorly educated moron. Toni Bowers offers a list of commonly mangled words so you can double-check your own pronunciation. by Toni Bowers
- Telecommunications Fundamentals
- View Available Dates and LocationsToday's telecommunications networks transport voice, data, and image traffic over a multitude of legacy and emerging technologies. This comprehensive course provides you with information on the structure, architecture, components, standards, and design of modern voice/telephony networks. You will learn how to evaluate...
- Cracking Open the Apple iPhone 3G
- Apple's iPhone 3G arrived on Friday with a bevy of new enterprise-ready features, including Exchange support, business-grade security, and third-party applications powered by an SDK. As with the first iPhone, we waited in line, bought our phone, signed an AT&T contract, and promptly began to crack open the case. Come...
- The Case for Document Management
- Are you asking how to avoid court-imposed sanctions? Are you wondering how to keep the escalating costs of electronic and paper discovery to a minimum? Whether the objective is to handle litigation, deliver new contracts, or projects, companies today need solutions that promote teamwork. However, common bottlenecks...
- Windows cannot access specified device, path or file...
- I have a problem that has developed on my user account. When I try to open any EXE file or MDB file on a network drive I get the following message.Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.I...
- How TechRepublic cracked open the iPhone 3G
- Following up on our Cracking Open gallery of the first iPhone, TechRepublic editors joined Apple's launch-day madness to secure an iPhone 3G for disassembly. Jason Hiner and Bill Detwiler recount their experiences battling long lines, Apple's iTunes meltdown, and limited supplies at AT&T stores.Bill explains how Mark Kaelin and he...
- Unified Communications: Presence/Status/Mobility/Collaboration
- In this fast-paced 5-minute Flash presentation, follow fictional Operations Manager Sam Jones as she efficiently responds to a complex, multilevel client emergency using the tools of Unified Communications. Watch as she deploys them to listen to voice messages via email, locate situation-relevant contacts and call them with a click, automatically...
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