Computer Safety & News

Sunbelt Security offers an excellent synopsis of SIR v11 reflecting developments during the first half of 2011  Microsoft – Security Intelligence Report v11 http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/microsoft-released-volume-11-of-sir.html QUOTE: SIR volume 11 has a lot more findings, insights, and observations from the the first half of 2011. Below are just some facts and figures from the report that are worth noting for […]

PC Magazine offers a detailed evaluation of Apple’s new iCloud facility as noted below: Apple iCloud – PC Magazine Review http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394611,00.asp QUOTE: The new iPhone 4S is grabbing most of the headlines this week, but a less concrete new offering from Apple may be just as momentous—iCloud.  The new Web-based service will not only replace […]

Hardware issues created a world-wide system outage and these appear to have been successfully resolved BlackBerry – Full Services restored after 3 day outage http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394609,00.asp QUOTE: Research in Motion co-founder Mike Lazaridis today apologized for the ongoing BlackBerry outage and said that the company has “restored full services.”  “Since launching BlackBerry in 1999, it’s been […]

Users should apply these changes expediently to ensure the best levels of protection Microsoft Security Updates – October 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=11779 http://blog.trendmicro.com/microsoft-releases-eight-bulletins-for-october-patch-tuesday/ QUOTE: Eight security bulletins have been released to include patches for 23 vulnerabilities for software such as Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Forefront United Access Gateway, and Microsoft Host Integration Server. […]