Computer Security thermometer Computer Security. Kind of scary, actually. With the likes of Target going down to hackers in late 2013, and a large attack on Home Depot in 2014, what can the rest of us do? If Home Depot can be compromised, how can I protect myself? The bad news -- you are a target. [...]
WordPress Post Revisions
Have you notice that WordPress saves post revisions for you? It is a great feature. Try it out yourself. Edit a post, click "Update", and voila, you have Post Revisions. Post Revisions But sometimes, post revisions can seem to get out of hand. Do you really need or want hundreds of revision histories? Well, WordPress is [...]
Goodbye Landline – get rid of the local exchange
So you’ve looked at your local phone bill and it was... oh my, I’m paying that much for a simple phone number? This doesn't seem right! How can I be paying $40 a month for a land line phone? Well it doesn't matter how you wound up paying that much. The unfortunate answer is that [...]
Using Artificial Intelligence to create predictive systems
The early days of Artificial Intelligence The term Artificial Intelligence (or AI) was coined in the mid 1950s. The technology was heavily funded by the Department of Defense for many years. Unfortunately, the practitioners at the time were overly optimistic and failed to plan for some of the difficulties that they eventually faced. By the mid [...]
Business & Technology Planning
This article explores basic ideas that you should keep in mind as you are starting or continuing your business. It is intended to provoke deeper thoughts for you and your executive team. From business continuity, to free coffee and free WiFi, we'll look into ideas that are important to businesses... and to customers. Business continuity [...]
The story of the “as a service” sisters — SaaS PaaS IaaS
Cloud service providers are in the news every day. Whether it be that Disney or the NFL is "moving to the cloud", or that a vendor is forcing Cloud adoption with their offerings, Cloud is newsworthy. And be it Microsoft's Office365, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform, (three of the main players), Cloud [...]
Information Warfare and the Software Developer
I hear you fancy yourself a software developer? Great! Me too. But what is your take on hackers and the craft of cyber warfare? Do you think you write hack safe code? Fact is, people are out there that want to Cyber crime hacks get on your systems,get on your customer's systems,get your data, orotherwise [...]
Content filtering
Content Filtering companies have gained quite a bit of traction in the Computer Network Defense (CND) industry. The goal of content filtering is to attempt to stem the carnage that malicious sites can wreak on unsuspecting individuals and companies by blocking access to malware and other forms of ransomware. No Entrance The filtering engines work [...]
WordPress: Configure WordPress to work from a Sub-directory
Most of us are familiar with files, directories, and sub-directories. In the art of computer science (yes, that "art" v "science" reference was intentional), directories and sub-directories are a way to organize files into a meaningful hierarchy. WordPress installations rely on this hierarchical file organization to make sense of the thousands of files that are [...]
Identity Theft
“You don’t know me, but I know your password. Let me get right to the point. I have access to your computer. I recorded you through your camera. You can pay me in bitcoin and I will disappear. If you don’t pay me I will send the video to everyone on your distribution list.”Popular online [...]