I hope that you enjoyed the cookies. They were made with love and there’s no calories in that. Each year the baking project gets bigger and bigger but we also have a lot of fun with it. This holiday season I find myself reflecting on the past year. It has […]
Commentary
It’s me again to remind you of the dangers of online banking for businesses. I feel like I’m starting to sound like a scratched CD (also know as a broken record) but this is very important. Recall from my last post on this topic that FDIC insurance does not protect […]
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 […]
It is that time of year when we need to get together to talk about the future. It’s planning season. We specialize in unique businesses. We don’t cookie cutter anyone. We make sure your IT fits you and enables your staff to be more productive. Your business is unique but […]
I reported earlier about how the situation in Thailand will be affecting the availability of a hard drive for the next 12 months. Since that time we’ve had some disturbing news. There are now no hard drives available for Canadian distribution 70 million hard drive orders will go unfilled per […]
It turns out that the world is flat, or at least it is in many aspects other than physical. You may have heard that Thailand is flooding in a big way. People are displaced. People are dying. Perhaps you felt bad for those people but didn’t think the flood would […]
This week has brought forth the following security breaches. Sony LockHeed Martin RSA SecureID International Monetary Fund CIA Citibank An excerpt from yesterday’s hearing: Testifying before members of the U.S. Congress in confirmation hearings to become the next Secretary of Defense, Panetta said a large-scale cyber attack on critical infrastructure […]
Today I am reading the incident and compromise report for 2010 by Verizon and the US Secret Service. It’s a good read if you are in my business. It gives me the pulse of what the bad guys are attacking and let’s me know if we’re doing the right thing […]
Recently we have received calls from several clients that have received a notice via email of a domain name conflict. The short story is that it should be ignored. The email that you receive looks like this: From: Oscar Hu [mailto:oscar@chinashkow.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:46 PM Subject: Domains […]
The “cloud” is all the talk in computing these days. They talk about it as if it’s something new. I suppose in once sense it is. It is a new term in marketing and boy are they pushing it. Microsoft’s “to the cloud!” commercials have been a hit, a kin […]