Without Search, Are You Real?

I had a client this last week politely suggest that she wasn’t interested in being found on the Internet. I was helping her with branding and positioning strategies – setting up a web presence, identifying keywords, developing backwards links – all so that Google could find her business easier. Alas, “That’s not how I work,” [...]

A Future Career in IT?

—–Original Message—– From: Ricardo Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:16 AM It was a pleasure having you as a instructor and the class was a great addition to my educational status, thank you! Am I wasting my time seek a future in this industry and more so in security and if not what would suggest? [...]

Disintermediating the Realtor

Disintermediation is the removal of an intermediary – a middle-man – from a supply chain for a product or service. In e-commerce, strong disintermediating forces are introduced with web self-services and, with disintermediation, the business model transforms into a leaner and more efficient process. For example, disintermediation allows SouthWest Airlines to bypass a travel agent [...]

New Hack Attack Bundled in Ads

On June 4-6, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO of Finjan Digital Technology, presented evidence for a new form of hosted attack at the Gartner Group Summit held in Washington DC. One form of this attack is to break into a legitimate website and insert an invisible document sourcing an HTML page uploaded by the hacker. Instead of [...]

Google Streetview

StreetView is a new integrated service with Google Maps. Google has commissioned folks in several large markets (New York, Los Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, and others) to run around town with a 360-degree camera, taking street pictures at ground level. The following is an example of New York’s Flanders Square: Using the service, anyone [...]

Microsoft’s Big Vista Licensing Push

Microsoft has tightened the screws on Vista activation as to contain their problems with software piracy. Microsoft’s Genuine Advantage Program (GAP) (a software stub that is installed from Windows Update) tests the validity of the Windows installation and will notify an end user (quite obnoxiously) when their Windows license is out of compliance. Machines that [...]

A New Look and Feel

Yeah, so I changed the blog to interact better with my new website layout. The color scheme and layout is more of a match and I’d been using the same template for years. It was simply time for a change! Pardon our dust as we’re revamping the core Mickler & Associates, Inc. site. If your [...]

Yahoo! Fixes IM Flaws

Yahoo! has just released a new version of its instant messenger product. In the current version, attackers can malicious code to harm target machines with minimal user interaction. It is recommended that anyone running Yahoo! Instant Messenger upgrade to the latest version to defend against this vulnerability. All computers running old versions of Yahoo! instant [...]

Move Over Klunky Laptops – Meet the Nanobook

A new class of portable computing is emerging and for less than $600. Via’s NanoBook. Via’s Nanobook has a 7″ screen, clamshell form factor and a full QWERTY keyboard. Weighing 850g (1.9 lb), the reference design offers a 1.2 GHz VIA C7 CPU, the VX-700 chipset, and up to 1GB of RAM. Connectivity comes with [...]

Annoying RDC 6.0 Problem

Using Vista? Hate the annoying challenge/licensing message each time that you try to connect to another box when you use RDC? Here’s the fix. Regedit: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client Add the following DWORD Value: AuthenticationLevelOverride Set the hexidecimal value to 0 (zero). No longer will you be interrupted when you try to connect to another machine. [...]