One of the largest botnets on the Internet today, Rustock has been the target of a coordinated takedown effort. This effort appears to have paid off as Rustock has gone from sending about 2,000 spam emails per second to virtually none in the last 12 hours. The CBL estimates that over 815,000 Windows computers are…
DetailsSome NerdSpeak here, but your IT person may appreciate this news: You can now make a PPTP VPN connection over Canadian mobile carriers’ (Bell & Rogers) 3G connections. Many SMEs (Small & Medium Enterprises) use Microsoft VPN technologies, specifically PPTP (Point-to-Point tunnelling protocol). One of the reasons that this is a popular VPN technology is…
Details“I had the pleasure of working with Nerds On Site to develop a new website for TBT Engineering Limited. The entire design and development team at Nerds were very friendly and very helpful. Changes that I requested were always completed quickly and when I needed assistance, Mark and his team were always happy to chat…
DetailsClic Here —> ‘Control-Alt-Delete’ Wait for the Bill Gates zinger at the end of the clip!
DetailsSince Windows 7 Service Pack 1 was released last week, there have been limited reports of troubles, but like all updates, not every computer is going to behave after it installs. Service Packs are no different.
DetailsThere has been a recent increase in an attack known as “Boy in the Browser”, or BitB. It is a bit like the classic “Man in the Middle”, or MitM attack, but much simpler and easier to execute. These attacks are often targeted and can be very stealthy.
DetailsGoogle has released a FREE iPhone and Android app called Google Translator that allows you to communicate on-the-go with people who don’t speak your language. It even provides the option of a lifelike automated voice (some languages)! Very cool!
DetailsDoes your company have a messy closet full of cables, servers, and other technology. Are you certain that you’re using all of that technology to it’s full potential? Do you have appliances using power, or not being used anymore, but still taking up space?
DetailsFor quite some time, we at Nerds On Site have been proclaiming how important it is for a hosting company to share it’s availability statistics. Well, we’ve taken another step forward in this front, and have recently launched our new trust.nerdsisp.com site! Fully redesigned, our site now offers live statistics. Previously, our site only displayed…
DetailsHundreds of millions of people rely on web-based services like Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail for their email needs. So far this year, both Hotmail and GMail have experienced problems that resulted in lost email and settings being reset. Both companies apologized for the “glitches”, but that doesn’t negate the fact that hundreds of thousands of people lost their email.
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