Operating Systems
Avoid The Hack: 11 Best Privacy Friendly Operating Systems (Desktops)
This post was originally published on 3 NOV 2021; it has since been updated and revised. Just about any closed-source, proprietary operating system - such as Windows or macOS - is likely ...
BlackLotus Malware Hijacks Windows Secure Boot Process
Researchers have discovered malware that “can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled and running on fully updated versions of Windows.” Dubbed BlackLotus, the ...
Avoid The Hack: The Best Private Mobile Operating System
Update/Revision of this post originally published on 1 DEC 2021. Most people have a smartphone and the odds are this smartphone is either an iPhone (iOS) or some flavor of Google Android ...
Meeting the Challenges of Remote Work with Chrome OS Policy Settings – Part II
Welcome to the second part of this two-part blog series for administrators who are new to the Chromebook enterprise system. In the previous blog, we discussed settings that are applicable to users ...
Meeting the Challenges of Remote Work with Chrome OS Policy Settings – Part I
Many organizations, from enterprises to small businesses and schools, are focusing efforts on distance working and learning. One significant hurdle for those who are suddenly tasked with supporting remote users is the ...
System Hardening Guidelines for 2022: Critical Best Practices
Wouldn’t it be amazing if our laptops were as secure as Fort Knox? Where it’s so hard for bad actors to access your sensitive data, that they don’t even try? While operating ...
Microsoft Quality Control Problems: The Litany
Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys: The Redmondian Leviathan via the inimitable Lawrence Abrams, writing at Bleeping Computer, comes the bad news for Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Windows users worldwide. The ...
Thirty-four years in IT – Swimming with the Itanic (Part 8)
For historical reasons, we were a strong VMS shop. Before they imploded, Digital Equipment treated EDU's very kindly, offering extremely good pricing on software in exchange for hardware adoption. In essence, a ...
Thirty-four years in IT – Swimming with the Itanic (Part 8)
For historical reasons, we were a strong VMS shop. Before they imploded, Digital Equipment treated EDU's very kindly, offering extremely good pricing on software in exchange for hardware adoption. In essence, a ...
In the New Fight Against Malware, It’s Spy vs. Spy
Cybersecurity teams are in a tough spot. New, insidious types of malware are emerging all the time (more than 800 million total million malware seen in 2019). In many cases, corporate security ...
