The domain extension for Columbia is .co, and at first glance you might think that is a typo, but it’s not. For years, the dominant domain extension for business on the Internet has been .com, but with the number of possible (short) .com domains all but extinguished, many businesses are waking up to the possibility…
DetailsOur team is re-configuring our Trust Site to ensure that absolutely no downtime in the Nerds On Site systems can affect it. Our Trust Site will be down for about the next 24 hours while the new DNS settings propagate. Once the new DNS settings propagate, our Trust Site will not be hosted on any…
DetailsUnfortunately most Joomla templates have the footer information buried in some php code. But I’m going to show you the most common area you can find it. This is for relatively advanced users. First step, make sure your template doesn’t let you edit the footer via a module position. Second step, BACK UP YOUR SITE.…
DetailsLast week there was a **possible** compromise of the Lastpass database. As time has gone on, it seems less and less likely that much, if any data was compromised. At first, the Lastpass folks recommended that users change their master password, just in case. That resulted in an overload on their systems, so they opted to lock the accounts in other ways. They are no opening up the system to allow master password changes again.
DetailsMany home users and businesses alike are using technology that is simply not designed for the way it’s being used on a daily basis, or even worse, don’t have a plan in place to prevent problems from occurring, including downtime and data loss. Too often, we are called on-site by frustrated clients who are unable to do their work or figure out a workaround because their technology suddenly isn’t working properly, or at all. Though we are happy to resolve such issues, we prefer to have a proactive plan in place that will greatly reduce the likelihood of problems from happening, and if they do, to have a “plan b” in place so the problem doesn’t affect their business operations, or cause nearly as much stress.
DetailsPlease join Nerds On Site Lethbridge at Save On Foods for a BBQ to support Autsim Awareness Month. Stop in on your lunch break today!
DetailsI am sure that by now, everyone has heard about the unbelievable fiasco at Sony. Surely Sony has security experts somewhere in the company. It does not even take much of an expert to know that storing passwords in plain text is, not to put too fine a point on it, STUPID. This was undoubtedly done many years ago and no one realized that it was STILL being done. A simple audit would have made this evident and prevented an awful lot of grief for a lot of Sony customers.
DetailsSony has finally come clean about the “external intrusion” that has caused the company to take down the PlayStation Network service, and the news is almost as bad as it can possibly get. The hackers have all your personal information, although Sony is still unsure about whether your credit card data is safe. Everything else on file when it comes to your account is in the hands of the hackers.
DetailsPrevious to last week’s widely-reported Amazon outage, we used email for delivery of outage alerts and reports to affected team members worldwide as well as clients. Since part of our mail infrastructure lived at the N. Carolina Amazon Data Centre, those alerts failed, and only those of you who either kept up with our twitter…
DetailsIn the aftermath of the latest email outage caused by Amazon’s epic outage, some clients may be wondering what type of email solutions they can consider that will have a significantly greater reliability than a basic shared email solution. Nerds On Site does offer a number of enterprise-grade email solutions, none of which were in…
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