Month: November 2014

Desktop Central Now Speaks in Your Language!

Yes, you read it right. Desktop Central, your integrated desktop and mobile device management software, just got better!  It is now available in Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Japanese, and German.   We always understood the prominent role Desktop Central plays in your work ; it helps you , for perform ing   D esktop   M anagement tasks such as patch management and , software installation , and also mobile device management tasks

Home Depot: Hackers Stole 53M Email Addreses

As if the credit card breach at Home Depot didn’t already look enough like the Target breach : Home Depot said yesterday that the hackers who stole 56 million customer credit and debit card accounts also made off with 53 million customer email addresses. In an update  (PDF) released to its site on Thursday, Home Depot warned customers about the potential for thieves to use the email addresses in phishing attacks (think a Home Depot “survey” that offers a gift card for the first 10,000 people who open the booby-trapped attachment, for example)

Monitoring of Active Directory Changes Made Easy

​ ​ There are some things that Microsoft builds into their product that are just amazing, while other things that are just pathetic! When it comes to monitoring Active Directory, we have both. However, by using the good and supplementing the bad with other options, a fantastic solution can be achieved! ​ The Good and Bad of Active Directory Monitoring ​ The good that Microsoft provides with regard to Active Directory monitoring is with regard to the detailed logs that can be generated

Progress Is Good – Applications Manager Is Now a Challenger

​ Recent enhancements a nd i ncreased customer acceptance have plac ed Applications Manager as a Challenger in * Gartner’s   APM -Magic Quadrant 2014. Over the last few years, changes in the business landscape have accelerated the adoption of application performance management ( APM ) in  organizations.

Feds Arrest Alleged ‘Silk Road 2′ Admin, Seize Servers

Federal prosecutors in New York today announced the arrest and charging of a San Francisco man they say ran the online drug bazaar and black market known as Silk Road 2.0 . In conjunction with the arrest, U.S. and European authorities have jointly seized control over the servers that hosted Silk Road 2.0 marketplace.

Still Spamming After All These Years

A long trail of spam, dodgy domains and hijacked Internet addresses leads back to a 37-year-old junk email purveyor in San Diego who was the first alleged spammer to have been criminally prosecuted 13 years ago for blasting unsolicited commercial email. Last month, security experts at Cisco blogged about spam samples caught by the company’s SpamCop service, which maintains a blacklist of known spam sources