Welcome to Managed Solutions

JoeHackmanHi I am Joe Hackman the founder of Managed Solutions. I’d like to welcome you to the website of the enterprise that has supported me for the past 13+ years, and the most recent four years my growing family as well. I started the company in January of 1997. We help people improve their business by leveraging technology. Managed Solutions is a systems, Internet, and networking managed services provider that specializes in helping businesses deploy, improve and maintain stable and secure out sourced technology solutions. On this site we strive to provide relevant information on issues that affect our client base and technology users around the globe, in fact you can sign up for free to get alerts on many subjects here. You will also find some information specific to Managed Solutions and the services we perform for our customers on this site. Our home office is in Danville, California with representatives working throughout the greater San Francisco Bay area and beyond. Please accept my invitation to you to share content on this site that you like and would love to hear your feedback.

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An Easy way to get Free Support, Enter to Win Prizes and Earn Money for Charity

We want to be big on Facebook, and with your help we can get there and help others who are less fortunate at the same time. The benefits of being a fan on our Facebook page are numerous:

  1. You can get tech support for free, just post your questions on the wall.
  2. You can meet new interesting people who are friends, vendors and clients of Managed Solutions.
  3. You can access a condensed feed of our content and pick the posts you’re most interested in.
  4. By joining us as a fan you can earn money for charity.
  5. You can win cool prizes just by becoming a fan.

We would much rather donate money to charity than pay for advertising. For that reason we have started the first of what may be many membership drives for our page that will benefit a charity. Effective now 3/11/2010 we have 401 fans on our page. For every new fan we get between now and May 13th, we will donate $1 up to a total of $500 to the Danville/Sycamore Valley Rotary Club on behalf of our supporters.

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Attackers can crack 1 in 80 Accounts

This is an interesting study and the findings are very useful to improving email security, particularly with webmail type services like Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. They found in this study that attackers were able to crack one in eighty accounts by guessing answers. The results surprised the group conducting the study, they did not anticipate it would be this statistically easy to do. So word to the wise, use the more complicated verification answers whenever possible if you want your accounts to remain secure. We’re usually given a number of choices when we sign up. http://amplify.com/u/2v47

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Update Adobe Acrobat, Again – Joe Reviews SB10-060 Cert Report (Video)

Here is a review of this weeks Cert Advisory. Adobe Acrobat has returned, please be sure to update! This is a weekly feature here at Managed Solutions. If you have questions about this video post a comment here or ask on our Facebook Fan Page.

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Arrests made in dismantling of Mariposa Botnet, consisting 13million infected PC’s!

Big news in the world of internet security. A Botnet this large is responsible for sending a tremendous volume of Spam emails and could be used to wreak even greater Havoc. This is a big win for the good guys, we really need to unravel these criminal networks, the event of arrests in this case is the big news. This is likely to make people reconsider their path in this area of cyber-crime. http://amplify.com/u/299i

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Fake Microsoft “Security Essentials” in the wild.

A very popular tactic by malware and virus writers is to masquerade as security software. Recently something has showed up in the wild that alleges to be Microsoft Security Essentials. This imposter not unlike many similar packages downloads and installs malicious components that undermine security settings on the infected host and prevents access to antivirus websites. The most popular method for packages like this are browser popups or carefully crafted links in Emails. If you think you may have been infected or received an Email that may link you to this or other Malware, Managed Solutions provides free support via our Facebook page at http://bit.ly/7zaVpx

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Google Chrome Vulnerabilities – Joe Reviews SB10-053 Cert Report (Video)

Here is a review of this weeks Cert Advisory. Surprising number of Google Chrome issues this week, luckily Chrome is updated constantly and quietly without prompting. This is a weekly feature here at Managed Solutions.

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    Blocking Farmville on Facebook (Video)

    We received a question on our Facebook page about blocking Farmville. Here is a short video on how to do this:

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    A broadband router botnet and vendor complacency stinks

    A worm is creating a botnet based on broadband routers. Botnets are used to launch denial of service attacks which cause internet services such as websites to become unavailable or slow. The disturbing component of this example is the vendor complacency. In spite being warned about using the same settings on their broadband routers it seems some companies have continued to do so. That creates great opportunity for this sort of worm. We will watch this issue closely and produce follow up information. http://amplify.com/u/21cp

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    Using public pool NTP servers in Windows

    Some windows users may find their computers time off, especially on an older system. Utilizing public pool ntp servers will allow you to synchronize to a reliable resource. This clip shows how to do just that. http://amplify.com/u/20p0

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