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Welcome to Managed Solutions

Hi 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 source...

Saving 80% on Wages and Payroll Taxes for New Hires

Re-post from Joe's Personal Blog: An incredible opportunity exists for businesses to hire new employees and get a large percentage of their wages and payroll taxes paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Here are some important points about the program: It applies to any business and job seeker anywhere in the US. Some localities have resources that screen the job seekers to qualify their eligibility. Businesses that receive federal funding do not qualify f...

Is it safe to bank online?

This article by Krebs on Security has identified an area of great concerned, exposure to online banking hacks. One of the banks in this article has experienced over a 500% increase in fraud cases. In many cases transactions are reversed but the victims still end up losing some of the money. These compromises typically result from a virus infection that leads to the capturing of banking credentials. It would be prudent to review your banks policies if theft were to occur. We are sharing this arti...

Update Microsoft Office Products – Joe Reviews SB10-074 Cert Report (Video)

Here is a review of this weeks Cert Advisory. This update contains the infamous Arucer.dll that came with the charging software on the Energizer Duo USB. Also definitely recommend updating your Microsoft Office products if you haven't recently. 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.

Searching for Corey Haim leads to Rogue Antivirus Software

This is an example of creative Blackhat SEO poisoning attacks. The crooks use unscrupulous methods to build strong response to an emerging key word exploiting a recent event. In this case they exploit the death of Corey Haim to direct people to Malware masquerading as antivirus software. As noted in this article on 17% of AV products would detect this product, meaning 83% of products would allow it to infect your PC. http://amplify.com/u/3616

Solving Internet Security – Go After the Money

The environment for operating internet crime syndicates has become a bit bumpier in recent months. Earlier this month we shared news about the arrests in the Mariposa Botnet. This recent news involves an ISP in Kazakhstan that has become a host for many of the delivery methods for Malware and Botnets. This caused a significant drop in Malware activity. By going after the money and making it more difficult for the companies that allow these illegal enterprises to persist we add a high deterrent t...

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: You can get tech support for free, just post your questions on the wall. You can meet new interesting people who are friends, vendors and clients of Managed Solutions. You can access a condensed feed of our content and pick the posts you're most interested in. By joining us as a fan you can earn money ...

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 ...

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.

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