Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts
Friday, July 14, 2017

A Federal Department of Cyber Security?

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Op Ed in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal calls for creation of one.  The writers want to consolidate some 11 existing cyber security age...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Cyber Security for ordinary businesses

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In this day and age, every thing your company does is on the company computers somewhere.  Email is forever.  First off, you need to identif...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Obama does an Op-Ed in the WSJ

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Nice big half a page with am illustration Op Ed piece.  "Protecting US Innovation From Cyberthreats". Sound great.  Only trouble i...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Hacking US computers.

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The TV newsies have been making a big deal of the big hack of  the federal Office of Personnel Management, where the personnel records, secu...
Thursday, June 4, 2015

Shepherd Smith was trashing XP yesterday

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Fox News commentator Shepherd Smith said that use of the old Windows XP operating system by the IRS led to the recent break in and identity ...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Market place winners and losers

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Loser: Windows.  Only 56% of the hits on my blog were from Windows machines.  Used to be Windows had 90+% market share.  Runner up Linux!  2...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Cyber Security according to the Economist

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The Economist ran a 10 page special suppliment on cyber security, mostly hand wringing about how little security we have.    They have a po...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Rootkit.bout.cidox.b

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Nasty virus.  Lovable daughter, who is up for Christmas, was web surfing on my machine. One website she surfed thru infected my trusty Compa...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Firefox and Internet Explorer tie.

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The two rival browsers are neck and neck with 31 % of page views here.  Chrome is coming on strong with 20 %.   Windows is still the dominan...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Microsoft, cyber espionage enabler

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The TV news has been full of stories about hostile Chinese hackers stealing plans, programming, codes, and whatever for things like the F-35...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Windows Services Fax Services to Protected Storage

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BTW.  Sorry about the format.  This data was originally a spreadsheet.  Converting it to something acceptable to blogger was only partly suc...
Saturday, June 9, 2012

Tweaking Windows Services.

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Services are little programs that Windows runs behind your back.  Some are necessary, many are not.  All of them steal valuable RAM and CPU ...

Tweaking Windows Services Alerter to Fast User Switching

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Dstarr Blackbox Alerter Transmits alerts for display by Messenger Services. Spam gateway. ...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

The many panes of Windows, Pt 4, The Registry

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In the beginning was a frill. Windows 95 "enriched the user interface" by permitting every file to display a custom file icon, so...