Mar

30

Samsung Laptop rootkit

March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Remember a few years ago Mark Russinovich busted Sony for covertly installing a root kit on computers when listening to music distributed by Sony? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki  /Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protectio n_scandal Turns out Samsung is doing something similar. Their root kit includes a key logger which is installed for free on select Samsung laptop computers. From the time the [...]

Mar

29

Microsoft event in SF on System Center Essentials and Windows Intune

March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment

PacITPro members, There are some additional events happening soon, here is one that might be of interest to the group. Managing Assets in the Cloud: System Center Essentials & Windows Intune Presenter: Chris Avis Microsoft, 835 Market St, SF Tuesday, April 12, 9:00 am 12 noon https://msevents.microsoft.c om/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?Even tID=1032479608&Culture=en-US Chris is a wonderful presenter and [...]

Mar

28

TechDays with Todd Lammle and Mark Minasi

March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Pac IT Pros members: The next TechDays event will be Tuesday April 5 from 1-6, right before our monthly meeting. Presenting will be Todd Lammle on Cisco’s Mobility in Motion and Mark Minasi on Cloud Computing. (Learn what the cloud computing venders don’t want you to know.) Then Todd and Mark will join forces and [...]

Mar

26

Here’s why you need to keep machines patched

March 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

Microsoft this sent out notification of fraudulent digital certificates which were issued by Comodo.  Unfortunately nine certificates issued by Comodo were signed on behalf of a third party without sufficiently validating its identity of the requester.  These certificates can be used to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks against ALL Web browser [...]

Mar

18

Security issues galore

March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Pac IT Pros members: You should be aware of the following security issues. (I’m going to make them short, BinGoole for full details.) Secure ID may not be secure A sophisticated attack was against RSA was successful. RSA are the guys who make Secure ID fob for 2 factor authentication. The fob has the numbers [...]

Mar

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Pac IT Pros meeting tomorrow Tuesday March 8th – Warning about 3TB drive and Wack-a-mole virus

March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Pac IT Pros members: The March meeting is Tuesday March 8th, that’s tomorrow night.  If attending RSVP  http://www.pacitpros.org Ed, Jennelle and I just returned from Redmond and the MCT Summit.  Microsoft gave us preview of products to come.  Some of what we saw was under NDA, but there was a lot that wasn’t and that [...]

Mar

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Pac IT Pros: No meeting tonight – March meeting will be next Tuesday on the 8th

March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Members Reminder No meeting tonight – March meeting will be next Tuesday on March 8th. Jenelle, Ed and I are at Microsoft’s MVP Summit.  Just got word from Microsoft we will be able share with you info on the next generation of products from Microsoft. Doug