SEC Relaxes Section 404 Compliance Requirements

On Monday May 21, the SEC approved “right-sizing” measures to describe how corporate managers should comply with SOX expectations. The guidelines are the first significant change to SOX since its passing by the Bush Administration in 2002. Compliance requirements, especially to Section 404 of SOX, is a time-consuming and costly endeavor for a public company; [...]

Net Neutrality and Small Business

Net Neutrality is the idea that all users on the Internet should be in control of their own content, applications, and have equal and fair share to bandwidth. Neutrality, in this context, suggests Federally-recognized economic classifications of bandwidth and content could prohibit or restrict Internet access for all. Net Neutrality is about unfettered and equal [...]

What’s in Your Backup?

A client called me two weeks ago. A microcomputer completely died; the system wouldn’t even spin-up after a reboot. After arriving onsite and removing the case, I found that the hard disk had entirely failed. I couldn’t even get the conrtoller to recognize it. The system was nearly eight years old and in a very [...]

Star Trek: Hidden Frontier’s Last Episode

One of the most amazing fan sites for Star Trek, Hidden Frontier, released their last episode on May 19, 2007. Incredible graphics, production, scripts – seven seasons of work, and watching from season six is an extraordinary experience; the detail put into these new episodes is a testiment to the power of microcomputer technology and [...]

Futurework – Mobile Spaces

My itinerary for the next 24 hours: 3:00am PST – Woke up. Logged into Colorado Technical University.5:30am PST – Finished grading CTU papers and posted final grades for two classes.6:00am PST – Showered, dressed, headed out for the airport.7:00am PST – Connected to the free PDX WiFi, did some work with my Keller Graduate School [...]

What’s in My Forensic Kit?

I’ve been asked at times what I keep in my forensic toolkit. This is a collection of burned commercial and open software that I take with me when performing computer forensic work: the extraction and preservation of data evidence for eventual presentation to a legal representative (lawyer or court). Cain & Abel. A password recovery [...]

Open Source Miscellany

A couple of noteworthy ideas encountered this last week on the Open Source movement. 1. The Open Source Thinktank 2007: The Future of Open Source. An interesting report on the state of the movement and the convergence of commercial vs non-commercial interests in this sector. Evidence, stage left: Microsoft was a platinum supporter of the [...]

My Story on Adjunct Teaching

>Since this isn’t really a school related email; I>won’t be graduating until ~December but I>wanted to ask how you got started teaching for>Devry. Sure! >I think it may be something I would enjoy doing.>I rarely see job openings available for teaching>on their website but know that classes>fill up so quickly they must need people for [...]

How to Investigate the Cached Email Addresses In Outlook

You may wonder what happens to all of those email addresses that Microsoft Outlook “remembers”. You know, when you create a new email, you begin to type and the field autofill’s with the name or address of somebody you’ve sent email to before? I ran into a problem last week with one of my clients. [...]

The Windows Experience Index (WEI)

WEI. This is WEI. Feel the WEI. Know the WEI. Be… the WEI. Well, this is my WEI. Nothin’? Aren’t you impressed? So you might be wondering what it means. So are a lot of people. The Windows Experience Index is a new feature in Windows Vista that attempts to rate your “experience” with Windows [...]