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Cisco IOS Multiple Vulnerabilities

The United States Computer Readiness Team (CERT) is reporting today that multiple vulnerabilities exist for IOS. We recommend you review the bulletin if you use any Cisco networking products.

Beware of Predatory Domain Name Registrars

This may sound familiar to you, you're going through your business mail and setting aside the bills for your payables department. Oh, here is one for our website, Liberty Names of America. I guess our domain is expiring we better renew .... uh wait a minute, we don't use Liberty Names of America. Why are they sending me a bill? It seems that some companies are founded with at the least ill advised business policies or perhaps far worse. Over the years as the operator of a small business I have s...

Education: the Answer to Zero Day Exploits

A Zero Day Exploit is an exploit that is circulating before the software vendor has learned of it. They can linger around as un-patched vulnerabilities if the vendor is slow or unable to respond to them. Security software with lots of bells and whistles tends to encourage end users to feel more secure. They have firewalls, Antivirus protection, all sorts of resident programs and pretty icons. Something pops up now and then asking for their input; again insuring them it is working hard to prot...

3 Critical Updates for Microsoft Products

There are some critical patches available today to address bugs in Internet Explorer (nearly all versions), Outlook (numerous versions) and Excel (numerous version). We recommend you take these precautions for the coming few days even if you are able to install the update. Exercise caution with your web access habits. Do not open any attachments in Outlook that you are not expecting. Delete any suspicious emails you receive. These updates will be available immediately from microsoft, ...

Antivirus That Works

Managed Solutions has a long history working with security products. Very early on in our business cycle it became apparent that the Internet and Email were going to really push the envelope as far as security for personal computers was concerned. Over the years we have worked with a number of specialized vendors providing Antivirus, Anti Malware and Anti Spyware solutions. Up until the summer of 2006 we viewed the products as a cumbersome necessary evil. That changed when we starting looking at...

Ten Years in Business 1997-2007

We are proud to announce that we have achieved a milestone in our business, we are celebrating our 10 year anniversary in 2007. We would like to thank our customers, vendors, friends and family for making this possible.