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05/31/2024

If you are using any of the following free VPN services, it is advised you remove them as soon as possible.

Free, illegitimate VPN applications that were created to connect to the 911 S5 service are: MaskVPN, DewVPN, PaladinVPN, ProxyGate, ShieldVPN, and ShineVPN.

The FBI, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, and Department of Commerce's Office of Export Enforcement have published a public service announcement (the “PSA”) for individuals and businesses to better understand and guard against the 911 S5 residential proxy service and botnet.

05/31/2024

Ticketmaster was allegedly breached. You have to assume that password you used on ticketmaster was compromised. If you used it anywhere else on any other site, please change it.

10/18/2022

01/29/2020

Have you gotten a message saying your operating system is no longer supported? But wait! I am on Windows 10. I thought it was only Windows 7 that was going out of support? Actually there are various versions of windows including Windows 10 that are no longer going to be supported and that includes Windows 10 version 1803. For Windows 10 the solution is simple. Windows update will automatically update you to version 1909.

01/14/2020

Updating your devices is just as important as updating your system. Windows updates do not update your device drivers for you in most cases. It is good practice to go into your Windows device manager once a quarter and update your device drivers for your video, network and other cards.

01/12/2020

DMARC is such an important part of your email implementation. There are a couple sites that you will find very useful. One is MxToolBox.com. It has a lot of useful tools when diagnosing email and domain issues. The other is dmarcian.com. It translates the XML attachments into human readable form.