Jun 3, 2012 | broadband, business, security
The Electronic Frontier Foundation published its annual study of the privacy polices of top Internet companies and awarded four stars to one and only one company: Sonic.Net, Sonoma’s County’s much-loved broadband and phone service provider. Sonic is the only company...
May 8, 2012 | mail, Office 365, security, spam
TAKEAWAY Office 365 delivers all incoming messages to your mailbox. It does not hold messages in a spam quarantine. [05/09/12 Update below] DETAILS Microsoft does thorough spam filtering on incoming mail for Office 365 subscribers – and then uses technology...
May 1, 2012 | Microsoft, security, Vista, Windows7, Windows8, WinXP
An updated version of Microsoft Security Essentials is being installed automatically for anyone currently running the free antivirus program. It is being pushed out silently by the Automatic Updates system and will likely be completely invisible to most of you. It...
Apr 9, 2012 | Amazon, Apple, iPad, security, wireless
A nasty bit of malware named “Flashback” has reportedly infected 600,000 Macs worldwide, more than half located in the US. Here’s some news coverage when the announcement was made last week by a Russian security company, followed by corroboration by Kaspersky Lab....
Mar 15, 2012 | Microsoft, SBS, security, updates, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
On Patch Tuesday, Microsoft delivered a small number of fairly unimportant updates – and one security patch that is being pushed with unusual urgency. Your individual computers are installing this automatically. If your computer restarted this week, you’re up to...
