Archive for July 17th, 2011
IT Pros Crave Clear Career Paths | Interviews | ITBusinessEdge.com
“IT folks really care about continuing to retool themselves, having an opportunity to move ahead, knowing what’s available to them in the organization and where they can go.” read more…
IT Pros Crave Clear Career Paths | Interviews | ITBusinessEdge.com.
Online Weather – WeatherSpark
Here’s a great weather site that allows you to gather information on -
- Current Weather Conditions for your city
- Historical Information
- Current radar
- Temperature
- Precipitation
- Forecast from several sources
- Humidity
- Pressure
- Wind Speed and Direction
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Clean your computer with Eusing Free System Cleaner
Eusing is another system cleaner that keeps your computer running like new. With other cleaners such as Glary’s, CCleaner, Cleanup 4.5.2, FCleaner and others it seems each has their own methods of cleaning your computer.
Eusing Free System Cleaner offers several rich features in their version 1.0 release.
- Cleaning options that gives full control of programs and settings from the start screen
- Registry cleaning that shows each key (Restore point are created)
- Registry defrag to optimize the loading of your computer
- Tools to backup Windows, your registry and to view index.dat files
- Options to fully control automatic cleaning, scheduling and startup or shutdown settings
- Fast interface and scanning unlike other cleaners
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Lock your laptop with a USB drive
Want extra security on your laptop or netbook? You can use WinLockr (download) to lock and secure your laptop with any extra flashdrive you have.
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Don’t forget to use Prey to track your stolen laptop.
Destroy your smartphone
After reading an excellent article on PCWorld, before you trade in your smartphone, sell it or give it away, the best thing you can do to achieve true security is to destroy it. This only makes sense since your data -even though it may be erased, can be retrieved off of your internal memory of your phone. This is a must read article.
One in four wireless networks are still unsecure
Annually our class studies wireless technology and its implementation into homes and industry. Surveys are conducted to analyze security used, transmit power and geographic location of wireless technology. According to Wigle.net, Security has improved over the last nine years. Home users are still setting up their wireless wrong by not providing a WPA2 (AES) form of encryption. Approximately 23% of home users still have open internet that neighbors or anyone passing by can use. (22 million are secure and 9 million remain unsecure!) Vendors have tried to make setting up wireless easy and secure by providing WPS and/or a setup utility disk that walks the user through step by step. Once you have secure wireless, you should change the password periodically to prevent users from learning what your passphrase is.
Wigle provides a map of wireless throughout the globe. As users find wireless, they upload their data to Wigle and the database is free to the public.
With GPS technology today, anyone including malicious wardrivers can map out coordinates of unsecured wifi. Make sure you secure your wifi.
See our other articles on wireless technology
Note: During a survey we do not use packet analyzers or methods to see data on the wireless networks.
