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Beyond malware removal: How to respond to a
compromised system alert
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I interact with a lot of people and
organizations that have compromised machines. Often, my email or phone call is
the first they have heard of the problem. Reactions vary from shock and denial
to acceptance and occasionally rage. Even worse, when they hear that their
machines are attacking others or being used in active attacks, many have no
idea how to handle the situation.
Should you ever get a call like this
from me or someone else, here are a few tips that you might find helpful for
proceeding.
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Clouds Now Strong Enough To Support Your Business
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Technology
makes life easier for small businesses, even if you can't see that while
cursing your personal computer for some problem or another today. Not only have
hardware costs dropped by an order of magnitude over the past two decades, you
can now run your business quite well without any hardware beyond one laptop or
netbook for every employee. The fuzzily-named "cloud" can support your business
without any local hardware. And when you do want local hardware appliances,
they should be tied into the cloud as well for disaster recovery support.
Let's define "cloud" as a hosted
service leveraging hardware not in your location. You can have a private cloud,
as many large companies do, by providing remote user services from a
centralized but company owned data center. Mainframes could be called the
original cloud with our definition, because few people were in the same
location as their computer. Click here to read more!
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