BRUCEB NEWS
The Kaseya Hack And The Mysterious Disappearing REvil Gang
On July 3 the Russian hacking group REvil infiltrated tools distributed by a security and monitoring firm – Kaseya, this time – and slipped ransomware into thousands of business networks. Today REvil has disappeared, a curious twist in the story of the Kaseya hack –...
FREE COMICS
Finally, some online technology that you can use! In the last ten years, many newspapers, magazines, and other publishers experimented with putting material online behind walls...
HOW SPAMMERS MAKE MONEY
Spammers can turn a profit even if they only get one response from every 12 million emails they send. When you see a ridiculous spam message and think, who in their right mind...
ACROBAT BINDERS & PORTFOLIOS
Acrobat 9 Professional builds on the features in Acrobat 8 that made it an important tool in many offices, especially law offices. There is a vastly improved document comparison...
HOPE
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who...
WINDOWS AZURE & LIFE IN THE CLOUD
"Windows Azure" is a terrible name but you need to be aware of it anyway. Windows Azure is a breathtakingly ambitious platform outlined by Microsoft at last week's Professional...
CLOUD COMPUTING BASICS
There are lots of projects intended to move our computing lives online. Let me try to paint a picture of where our world is heading over the next 5-10 years. I'll use Microsoft...
LIVE MESH UPDATE
Windows Live Mesh has just been updated, as of about noon on Thursday 10/30. If you are using it already, you will be notified to install the update; it will stop working until...
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CRUCIAL MEMORY SCANNER
If you don't have enough memory ("RAM") in your computer, it will run very, very slowly. Once you have a reasonable amount of memory, performance won't change very much if you...
OUTLOOK: MULTI-DAY CALENDAR VIEWS
The Outlook team at Microsoft plans to publish a series of tips in their blog about interesting ways they use Outlook. Today's item highlights a way to display any range of dates...
PDC & LIVE MESH UPDATE
If you're using my favorite web service Live Mesh, watch for an update in the next few days. It will be required to continue using Live Mesh; file sharing and remote access will...
CRITICAL WINDOWS UPDATE
Microsoft rushed out a critical security update today that should be installed without delay on every Windows computer. It will have been installed overnight on Wednesday on many...
WINDOWS LIVE ONECARE FOR SERVER
Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 will be released on November 12. Veterans of SBS 2003 are finding many things to like in the new version; I'll have more to say about it in...
CALIFORNIA BALLOT MEASURES
I've got something that might help you out when you face your California election ballot. A good friend who has worked in state government and politics for most of his career has...
DELL REMOTE ACCESS
Access everywhere! Lots of interesting services are being set up to make it easy for you to have access to files, folders, photos, and computers from anywhere, whether it's...