Blog / Netflix Beckons: A Few Thoughts about Working from Home We've arrived! After more than three months, I have just moved into our newly-renovated offices. At the beginning of May we started our Renovation project and - as my office was gutted to make way for the new layout, I was forced to work from my home office. September 21, 2018
Blog / Municipal IT Budget Planning – Part 5: Municipality Servers Servers - every Municipality has them; in some cases 15 or 20 (or even more.) Most of them cost more than a new car and generate a lot of noise, heat and headaches. They never get to rest and hardly ever get cleaned. Most Users don't know and don't care what they do, except when they stop working, and then there's plenty of scorn heaped on them. Servers have a tough life! September 19, 2018
Blog / Small Mistakes can be Costly! Email is rapidly becoming one of the primary methods for Attackers to initially infiltrate an organization. They can send infected attachments, conduct Phishing campaigns to gain login credentials, and more. It's simple to use and doesn't require a lot of specialized or expensive resources to setup (like designing a piece of custom malware.) September 19, 2018
Blog / So, It’s the North Koreans After All!! WannaCry Virus linked to North Korean Hacker Cyber Criminals are usually highly-educated members of organized crime or nation-states - at least that's the conventional wisdom. We rarely get a glimpse into the true workings of the Hacker-mill, as very few of them are caught - and even fewer ever come to justice. September 13, 2018
Blog / Municipal IT Budget Planning – Part 4: Municipality Cyber Security If your Municipality hasn't been hit with Ransomware or some other system-crippling virus, chances are you know of a neighbouring Municipality that has. TRINUS has written almost weekly about the exploits of organized Cyber-Criminals. It's big business - reportedly estimated at $600 Billion annually, and so is the burgeoning fight against it. September 13, 2018
Blog / Municipal IT Budget Planning – Part 3: Municipality Proactive Maintenance Since their introduction into modern business environments, IT Systems have required maintenance to provide the functionality and performance they claim to have. They are incredibly complex systems that process hundreds of millions - sometimes billions - of pieces of information every day. Maintenance is usually divided into 2 segments; Hardware - ensuring the physical components are operating correctly, and Software - ensuring the operating instructions don't corrupt the processed data. September 07, 2018
Blog / Back to School – A Bit of Computer History Shows Where We Might Be Headed Well, it's Back to School for the kids this week. They aren't the only ones who need to keep on learning. The major reason I got into computers in the first place, was because there's always something new to find out. For anyone who pursues a career in computers, this is one of the major draws. September 05, 2018
Blog / Municipal IT Budget Planning Part 2: Municipality Backups and Disaster Recovery It seems we're starting at the end of the series, when we talk about Backups and Disaster Recovery. But of all of the possible topics, it's our experience that is the least understood and most ignored aspect of all IT areas. Most Municipalities are doing a LOUSY job of Backups and Disaster Recovery (BDR for our purposes.) August 30, 2018
Blog / (DON’T) Support Your Local Phone Scammers!! Technical Support scams often claim to be from Microsoft or Windows. This happens so often, that Microsoft has a website that you can use to report a Microsoft support scam. August 30, 2018
Blog / Where’s Sherlock when You Need Him? – Latest Emails Appear to Come from the Bank of Montreal, but It’s Actually a SCAM We love to watch British dramas and the crime genre is among our favourites. Midsummer Murders follows the exploits of Inspector Barnaby and his colleagues, as they investigate murders in the quaint English countryside. It's a wonder they have any people left at the rate the writers kill people off. August 29, 2018
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