Remember the massive power outage that affected more than 8 million people on September 8th?
Cloud9 Real Time never went down ...
http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/091211_Web_Hosts_Remain_Online_During_San_Diego_Blackout
Friday, September 16, 2011
Cloud Computing
I was just made aware of this great article in the Wall Street Journal regarding Cloud Computing.
It's worth the read ~
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904060604576572930344327162.html?KEYWORDS=seeking+safety+in+the+clouds
It's worth the read ~
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904060604576572930344327162.html?KEYWORDS=seeking+safety+in+the+clouds
Saturday, September 10, 2011
QuickBooks 2012 is almost here!
And from what I've already heard, it has MANY new features!
Please contact me and I'd be happy to let you know when it's available for purchase. And remember, I can save you money on the purchase price!
Please contact me and I'd be happy to let you know when it's available for purchase. And remember, I can save you money on the purchase price!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Time to share again... WiFi security concern
Here's a Windows XP wi-fi security concern... please read this article since it may pertain to YOUR computer!
Your wireless-enabled Windows XP laptop could be advertising itself as an ad hoc wireless network without your knowledge, allowing other wireless users in the vicinity to connect to it.
Oops! Read more about how this happens and what you can do about it:
http://www.wxpnews.com/R0RR3N/100316-Security-Hole
Be safe on the Internet. The "bad guys" are watching!
Your wireless-enabled Windows XP laptop could be advertising itself as an ad hoc wireless network without your knowledge, allowing other wireless users in the vicinity to connect to it.
Oops! Read more about how this happens and what you can do about it:
http://www.wxpnews.com/R0RR3N/100316-Security-Hole
Be safe on the Internet. The "bad guys" are watching!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Time to check YOUR version of Internet Explorer...
Direct from Windows XP News: "Older versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable to attack"
Many of those who use Windows XP are still using the older version of Internet Explorer that came with the operating system (IE 6) or its immediate successor (IE 7) and haven't upgraded to the latest version of the browser (IE 8).
If you're in that category, be aware that a new exploit has been posted by a hacker that can be used to install unauthorized software on computers running the older versions of IE. Even if you have the latest service pack (SP3), this attack can still work.
You can protect against it by disabling JavaScript. Read more here:
http://www.wxpnews.com/R0RR3N/091124-Internet-Explorer-Attack
Many of those who use Windows XP are still using the older version of Internet Explorer that came with the operating system (IE 6) or its immediate successor (IE 7) and haven't upgraded to the latest version of the browser (IE 8).
If you're in that category, be aware that a new exploit has been posted by a hacker that can be used to install unauthorized software on computers running the older versions of IE. Even if you have the latest service pack (SP3), this attack can still work.
You can protect against it by disabling JavaScript. Read more here:
http://www.wxpnews.com/R0RR3N/091124-Internet-Explorer-Attack
Monday, November 16, 2009
After-The-Fact Bookkeeping is HERE!
Too busy to learn QuickBooks yourself? Do you WANT to continue with your manual bookkeeping system?
Then please consider our After-The-Fact Bookkeeping.
With our service, you simply need to:
When your bookkeeping is done properly and in a timely manner, it greatly reduces your tax preparation time at year end and it could lower your Tax Accountant's charges.
With our service you'll have clean, accurate, and up-to-date books with financial information that you can trust. This will greatly assist you in the review and analysis of your business so you can better manage your top line revenue and bottom line profit.
Then please consider our After-The-Fact Bookkeeping.
With our service, you simply need to:
- Write checks and pay your vendors
- Make your deposits
- At the end of each month, send us your check stubs and all bank statements (checking, savings, credit cards, loans, etc) by e-mail (PDF), mail or delivery
- Enter all of your data into the latest version of QuickBooks
- Reconcile all of your accounts, including your credit cards and loans
- Prepare Financial Statements (Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, and comparative reports)
- Prepare Sales tax forms (as needed)
- Prepare Payroll tax forms (as needed)
- Prepare Workers compensation reports (as needed)
When your bookkeeping is done properly and in a timely manner, it greatly reduces your tax preparation time at year end and it could lower your Tax Accountant's charges.
With our service you'll have clean, accurate, and up-to-date books with financial information that you can trust. This will greatly assist you in the review and analysis of your business so you can better manage your top line revenue and bottom line profit.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
How to update your QuickBooks
Hopefully your QB's is updating itself automatically.
To verify, open your QB's and click F2. The first line will tell you the version number and release. The most recent releases are as follows:
QB Pro 2007 = Release R13
QB Pro 2008 = Release R10
QB Pro 2009 = Release R8
If your version is not the most recent release, then click:
Help
Update QuickBooks
Click the OPTIONS tab and be sure "automatic update" is marked YES.
Under "Select the updates you want QB's to download automatically" and select "mark all".
Click Save.
Click the "Update Now" tab
Click "Get Updates"
When done, click "close".
You may have to close QB's and then re-open to have the update install.
Click F2 again to verify your release is now at Release R8P.
To verify, open your QB's and click F2. The first line will tell you the version number and release. The most recent releases are as follows:
QB Pro 2007 = Release R13
QB Pro 2008 = Release R10
QB Pro 2009 = Release R8
If your version is not the most recent release, then click:
Help
Update QuickBooks
Click the OPTIONS tab and be sure "automatic update" is marked YES.
Under "Select the updates you want QB's to download automatically" and select "mark all".
Click Save.
Click the "Update Now" tab
Click "Get Updates"
When done, click "close".
You may have to close QB's and then re-open to have the update install.
Click F2 again to verify your release is now at Release R8P.
QuickBooks security issue with versions 2007 - 2009
If you are using QuickBooks 2007 through 2009 Simple Start, Pro, Premier, or Enterprise, PLEASE BE SURE TO UPDATE YOUR QUICKBOOKS.
There is a security issue with the use of Active X Technology and your QuickBooks.
Please update your QuickBooks immediately to protect your data.
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Diana Makes
There is a security issue with the use of Active X Technology and your QuickBooks.
Please update your QuickBooks immediately to protect your data.
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Diana Makes
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
WATCH OUT... Facebook Users Under Cyberattack!
From the HEADLINES at USAToday.com by Byron Acohido
Two top botnet gangs are bombarding Facebook members with targeted phishing emails. They're hoping to get control of members' Facebook and other accounts -- a rising type of cybercrime. There is nothing Facebook can do, beyond warning its members, to slow down these attacks. "This virus has been spreading over email, not on Facebook," says Facebook spokesman Simon Axten. "We’re educating users on how to detect this through the Facebook Security Page."
In one of the ongoing attacks, the bad guys are directing an army of computers they've previously infected to systematically send out individual email messages to millions of Facebook members. The messages advise recipients to click "here" to activate a "new login system that will affect all Facebook users." This takes the victim to mocked-up Facebook log-in page with the victim's email address already filled in, but the password is blank. Typing your password gives full access to your Facebook account to the crooks. But the bad guys aren't done yet.Another prompt then appears, advising you to download an “update tool,” which actually installs the ZeuS banking Trojan. It lurks on your hard drive waiting for a chance to steal your online banking log-in information the next time you type it.
As of this morning, AppRiver had counted 41 different Web domains sending out 600 of these targeted phishing emails per minute. "We have seen around 6 million pieces of email so far this morning," he says.At its peak yesterday, about 1,000 viral emails per minute were being pushed out, he says. "This was a two-pronged attack," says Touchette. "The first purpose was to phish Facebook accounts, and the second was to attempt to deliver a Trojan onto the victim’s machine." This same cybercrime group has tried variations of this attack with email lures purporting to come from the IRS, the British customs service and a banking consolidation service in the United Kingdom called One Account. The latest campaign was preceded by a similar one, with messages purporting to come from the FDIC. The crooks' main goal is to "intercept financial account information," says Tochette.
The other big, ongoing Facebook phishing campaign began on Monday around noon Pacific time, says Jamie Tomasello, abuse operations manager for messaging security firm Cloudmark.These emails purport to come from support@facebook.com, and contain a zip file said to hold the recipient's new password, recently changed for security reasons by Facebook. This simple ruse is fooling many. Cloudmark has found evidence of Facebook members actually going into their junk mail folders to retrieve these viral messages, then clicking on the infectious zip file. This installs a banking Trojan, called Bredolab, which competes against ZeuS for sales in the cyber underground."
People are very addicted to their Facebook accounts. They are so accustomed to communicating frequently and rapidly all the time," says Tomasello. "They are aware of all the attacks, and are concerned about them. Yet many of them believe this is a legitimate security message from Facebook that got inadvertently sent to their junk mail folder."
Similar attacks are inundating Twitter, as well. So many Twitter users are changing their passwords to start anew that Twitter but can't handle the changes and has begun locking out such changes. Twitters now advises users not to change their usernames and passwords.
Tomorrow antivirus company Kaspersky plans to publicly unveil Krab Krawler, a tool it has been developing that's designed to troll Twitter microblogs for malicious URLs and then add them to Kaspersky's blacklist of malicious programs.
Two top botnet gangs are bombarding Facebook members with targeted phishing emails. They're hoping to get control of members' Facebook and other accounts -- a rising type of cybercrime. There is nothing Facebook can do, beyond warning its members, to slow down these attacks. "This virus has been spreading over email, not on Facebook," says Facebook spokesman Simon Axten. "We’re educating users on how to detect this through the Facebook Security Page."
In one of the ongoing attacks, the bad guys are directing an army of computers they've previously infected to systematically send out individual email messages to millions of Facebook members. The messages advise recipients to click "here" to activate a "new login system that will affect all Facebook users." This takes the victim to mocked-up Facebook log-in page with the victim's email address already filled in, but the password is blank. Typing your password gives full access to your Facebook account to the crooks. But the bad guys aren't done yet.Another prompt then appears, advising you to download an “update tool,” which actually installs the ZeuS banking Trojan. It lurks on your hard drive waiting for a chance to steal your online banking log-in information the next time you type it.
As of this morning, AppRiver had counted 41 different Web domains sending out 600 of these targeted phishing emails per minute. "We have seen around 6 million pieces of email so far this morning," he says.At its peak yesterday, about 1,000 viral emails per minute were being pushed out, he says. "This was a two-pronged attack," says Touchette. "The first purpose was to phish Facebook accounts, and the second was to attempt to deliver a Trojan onto the victim’s machine." This same cybercrime group has tried variations of this attack with email lures purporting to come from the IRS, the British customs service and a banking consolidation service in the United Kingdom called One Account. The latest campaign was preceded by a similar one, with messages purporting to come from the FDIC. The crooks' main goal is to "intercept financial account information," says Tochette.
The other big, ongoing Facebook phishing campaign began on Monday around noon Pacific time, says Jamie Tomasello, abuse operations manager for messaging security firm Cloudmark.These emails purport to come from support@facebook.com, and contain a zip file said to hold the recipient's new password, recently changed for security reasons by Facebook. This simple ruse is fooling many. Cloudmark has found evidence of Facebook members actually going into their junk mail folders to retrieve these viral messages, then clicking on the infectious zip file. This installs a banking Trojan, called Bredolab, which competes against ZeuS for sales in the cyber underground."
People are very addicted to their Facebook accounts. They are so accustomed to communicating frequently and rapidly all the time," says Tomasello. "They are aware of all the attacks, and are concerned about them. Yet many of them believe this is a legitimate security message from Facebook that got inadvertently sent to their junk mail folder."
Similar attacks are inundating Twitter, as well. So many Twitter users are changing their passwords to start anew that Twitter but can't handle the changes and has begun locking out such changes. Twitters now advises users not to change their usernames and passwords.
Tomorrow antivirus company Kaspersky plans to publicly unveil Krab Krawler, a tool it has been developing that's designed to troll Twitter microblogs for malicious URLs and then add them to Kaspersky's blacklist of malicious programs.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Microsoft Launches Windows 7 on October 22nd
I love computers. Microsoft has been part of my life since they provided the DOS operating system for personal computers in the early 1980's. Here we go again... change is good. Right?
NEWS FLASH... Microsoft launches Windows 7 on October 22, 2009 to replace the problematic Windows VISTA operating system. VISTA is gone! Windows XP is still a favorite of computer users because it works!
There's been a lot of marketing hoopla around the new Windows 7 operating system software. Beta software testers say Windows 7 is a "blend" of Windows XP, Windows VISTA and new stuff.
Here's a very informative website if you're interested in Windows 7:
http://www.win7news.net/
At this point in time there is NO UPGRADE path to go from from Windows XP to Windows 7.
Reason #1... there would be too many problems for Microsoft to support since Windows XP was released in May 2001. Windows XP is now considered an "old" (legacy) operating system.
Reason #2... Microsoft wants all of us to buy new computers with Windows 7 installed from the factory. They will make companies like Dell, HP, etc. support the computer hardware AND the Microsoft 7 operating system. That takes a huge burden off of Microsoft.
Reason #3... Microsoft is interested in increasing their sales revenue, profit and market share.
Reason #4... Microsoft wants to "sunset" Windows XP and will stop all security updates in May 2014. Everyone will need to purchase new computers with Windows 7 in the next 4.5 years.
I'll be purchasing a new DELL laptop computer with Windows 7 installed. Watch for future postings about the "good" & "bad" aspects of the Windows 7 operating system that you'll be using on your NEXT computer.
NEWS FLASH... Microsoft launches Windows 7 on October 22, 2009 to replace the problematic Windows VISTA operating system. VISTA is gone! Windows XP is still a favorite of computer users because it works!
There's been a lot of marketing hoopla around the new Windows 7 operating system software. Beta software testers say Windows 7 is a "blend" of Windows XP, Windows VISTA and new stuff.
Here's a very informative website if you're interested in Windows 7:
http://www.win7news.net/
At this point in time there is NO UPGRADE path to go from from Windows XP to Windows 7.
Reason #1... there would be too many problems for Microsoft to support since Windows XP was released in May 2001. Windows XP is now considered an "old" (legacy) operating system.
Reason #2... Microsoft wants all of us to buy new computers with Windows 7 installed from the factory. They will make companies like Dell, HP, etc. support the computer hardware AND the Microsoft 7 operating system. That takes a huge burden off of Microsoft.
Reason #3... Microsoft is interested in increasing their sales revenue, profit and market share.
Reason #4... Microsoft wants to "sunset" Windows XP and will stop all security updates in May 2014. Everyone will need to purchase new computers with Windows 7 in the next 4.5 years.
I'll be purchasing a new DELL laptop computer with Windows 7 installed. Watch for future postings about the "good" & "bad" aspects of the Windows 7 operating system that you'll be using on your NEXT computer.
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