Connare Tech: Owner’s Corner

SP2 was Microsoft’s answer to security and with it included Microsoft’s own revamped firewall and Security Center. However, do not be fooled by the inclusion of a firewall by Microsoft. The built in firewall is barely adquedate in addressing real security threats that a firewall is supposed to protect against.
What is a firewall?
When you [...]

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No sooner had I posted my few takes on the Mac OS X virus situation that the following few days saw the web and media in a fury over a new flaw “Mac OS X hacked in under 30 minutes.” Upon reading this article it would essentially destroy not only any of my arguments [...]

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My parents are the type that are paranoid about identity theft and are always worried about the world at large compromising their sensitive financial data. So naturally when they read about the new mac viruses, my mother called me up specifically to ask whether or not it was still ok to submit her credit card [...]

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