Small Tech Notes

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A Must Read–Don’t Let This Happen To You

This article might sound very technical to most of you but I hope that you will bear with me and read it through because the concepts are very important. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/ Basically, the “hackers” liked his Twitter handle, @mat. So they found his email address mat@gmail.com, and went to Gmail to […]

Shanewaz Ahmed

Shanewaz joined Harbor about 3 months ago. You might be wondering how to pronounce is name. I did. It’s not as bad as it looks. It’s Shan-Waz. He came to us from the Oakland University IT department. Shanewaz will be handling all maintenance activities for us. These are the things […]

Dangers of Online Banking

I read an article recently that claimed that most people do not realize that they are not protected from unauthorized withdrawals from accounts where they have enabled online banking. Think a fraudulent withdrawal of funds to your commercial or business banking account is limited to $50, like a fraudulent credit […]

Windows 8 is here

We’re seeing signs that Windows 8 is coming in for a landing. My guess and this is only a guess is that we’ll see it available for purchase in 30-90 days. Here are the signs: From this point forward every new computer is going to come with a coupon for […]

Emergency Patch Alert

We have just been made aware of a new vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). RDP is the protocol that is used for remote access to computers. If you access your computer from home, then you are using RDP. If you access your computer with your iPAD, then you […]