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Less than a week after NSS Labs exposed that Palo Alto Networks firewalls were among the many firewalls that were vulnerable to the TCP Split Handshake spoof attack, Palo Alto Networks has successfully worked with NSS to reverse – and actually improve – their status.  Not only did the re-tested Palo Alto firewalls achieve a [...]

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More and more people are demanding that business establishments they visit provide free Wi-Fi. Setting up the hotspot network yourself might seem to be a good idea, but you’re probably missing a lot of fundamental security protocols that leave your network open to abuse.
Many businesses have seen the demand for free Wi-Fi at their establishments [...]

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I’m a Dropbox fan boy; I admit it, and am going to weekly meetings.  Not really, but I have sincerely drunk the Dropbox Kool-Aid.  There are many services that do the same thing Dropbox does (Sugar-Sync, SpiderOak, etc.), but none of them do it nearly as elegantly and efficiently.  Dropbox isn’t as cheap as other solutions [...]

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Do you love using the blazing fast speed of Google Chrome, but hate that you have to download EVERYTHING with Chrome to view even the simplest of documents?  I have found a solution that allows me to view documents on the fly with the option to save them if I need them.  Also, with Microsoft [...]

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The phishing scams being warned of as a result of the Epsilon data breach aren’t the only malicious emails making the rounds right now. A spam email with the subject “Request rejected” is currently infecting computers around the world.
The message does not contain any clue as to what the rejected request might be, and since [...]

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Is your network ready for IPv6? It has been estimated that the RIRs (Regional Internet Registries) will run out of IPv4 address space sometime this month. While there are many different guesses as to exactly when this will happen, one thing is for certain: IPv4 is drawing its last breaths. While that may not be [...]

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For years, we’ve all been told that lithium-ion batteries need to be fully charged and then fully discharged to keep their “depth of discharge” longer.  Not so, according to a new article by the folks at Battery University. This eye-opening article challenges everything you thought you knew about battery life for small devices, and they have [...]

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Would you like to customize the Windows 7 Logon Screen and use your own wallpaper image? There are actually several ways to do this.
The first method involves editing the registry and creating a folder containing your own custom images. However, if you are uncomfortable doing this, or if it seems like too much work, there [...]

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When you installed MS Office 2007 or 2010, you had the choice of installing the entire suite or picking and choosing which apps you wanted. If you now find you want to change those selections, we can help.
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Have you ever clicked “Never Remember” for a password, only to decide later that you do want Firefox to remember it?  Here’s how you can get Firefox to re-prompt you.
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