Security
There’s No Cure for Stupid – How Failing to Backup Killed JournalSpace
By Nerino Petro at 2 January, 2009, 5:15 pm
Seems the folks at JournalSpace, the popular blog hosting site, failed to pay attention to common backup strategies and best practices and didn’t have ANY BACKUPS. That’s right folks, none, nada, zip, zilch. Instead, they relied on a set of drives mirrored (RAID 1) on a server running OS X server.
Read More >>“Book’em Danno†– Back to My Mac catches thief!
By Nerino Petro at 12 May, 2008, 3:50 pm
Here’s a link to a story about a MacBook user using the Apple Back to My Mac feature to capture an image of the thief who stole her MacBook.
Read More >>Oops –Microsoft Stumbles Again: Older File Formats Disabled in Office 2003 Service Pack 3
By Nerino Petro at 2 January, 2008, 11:20 am
Slashdot is reporting that Microsoft has disabled support for many older file formats with the installation of Service Pack 3 in this post.
Read More >>5 Tips to protect your laptop.
By Nerino Petro at 26 November, 2007, 9:00 am
Laptops – we love them and so do thieves. You can protect your critical data with a few simple precautions such as those from Security Hacks recent post titled 5 Essential laptop security tips.
Read More >>Don’t be an idiot: Backup your data.
By Nerino Petro at 25 October, 2007, 8:07 am
I think this quote is very apropos today: as important as backing up your critical data is, I’m still amazed at the number of lawyers that fail to take any steps to protect their data. I last wrote about data backup in Compujurist in 2005 and think it is time to revisit this issue as it continues to be a topic of discussion on e-lists around the country.
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