Emmanuel Computer Consulting, L.L.C.

The blame here is not online banking but the operating system(Windows) faulty design and the users lack of proper security education.  ANY business no matter how small needs to have a security audit done:

1. To make sure your machines aren’t infected

2. To get educated on how windows computers are vulnerable by design

3.  To learn how to protect yourself from online fraud and other threats

4.  To ensure proper recovery and mitigation procedures are in place BEFORE this kind of damage takes place

As the economy sputters along more and more single person, home-based businesses are going to have this happen.  It’s all too easy for a machine to get infected and with this new generation of malware once you are infected…it’s too late to recover.  Listen to my podcast for more information.

McCarthy said she never would have done online banking for her business if she had understood how precarious it was for her business.

via N.Y. Firm Faces Bankruptcy from $164,000 E-Banking Loss — Krebs on Security.

It’s very simple.  Yahoo is abandoning their search.  All of their search results are going to come from Bing.  How bad is Bing?  I can search Microsoft’s site with Google faster, with more accuracy, and more relevance than Bing can hope for.

Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers.

Dell in their newest RAID cards are actively blocking “non-Dell Certified” hard disks.  This means if you don’t use a “Dell Drive” the controller won’t allow it to operate.  Considering the markup on “Dell” drives can be nearly 200% this is sutpid.  There is a way around..don’t buy the Dell Hxxx series of controllers…at least that will work until Dell makes the motherboards do the same thing.

Also they have started doing something similar with Workstations to.  They are now using a proprietary daughtercard for dual socket systems.  This means you have to buy the dual cpus now..if you don’t you’ll be getting hammered for an even more ridiculous markup later(if they sell that particular cpu at all).