Posts Tagged 'System Administrator'

On the second Tuesday of every month Microsoft releases a series of system and security updates, thus the 2nd Tuesday of the month is referred to “Patch Tuesday” in the IT world.  Next Tuesday is particularly note worthy.  See the article from Network World.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/060310-microsoft-plans-gigantic-patch-tuesday.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2010-06-04

We are not big fans of Network Solutions for many reasons and here is yet another reason.  Read the full article on the Network World site.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/022310-ftc-warns-nearly-100-firms.html

If you think that letting your staff run peer-to-peer software does not endanger your company…think again.

Recently came across this interesting set of statistics from the Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report.

Where Malicious Software Hides:

• In 1 of every 3,000 Flash files
• In 1 of every 2,000 Javascript files
• In 1 of every 600 PDF files

www.pingtest.net goes beyond measuring the speed of your Internet connection. It measures the quality of your internet connection.

Piriform (www.piriform.com) publishes four handy utilities for windows computers:

• CCleaner – Cleaning & Optimization
• Defraggler – Disk Defragmenter
• Recuva – File Recovery
• Speccy – System Profiler

Each utility is easy to use, fast and free.

This is not for the faint of heart, but the pay off is worth it.

http://lifehacker.com/5397023/enable-tethering-on-your-iphone-3g-or-3gs-running-312

robtex is billed as the swiss army knife of internet tools. It provides a comprehensive suite of products for discovering various aspects of internet domain names, ip address information, geographic location of servers and more.

www.robtex.com