There are a lot of thieves out there and they’re coming up with new ways to steal your cash.  (Kudos to Howie Chizek at WNIR for reporting this on his radio show. ) The first theft method is called “Skimming.”  Skimming occurs when the thief places a card reading device OVER the existing ATM or […]

Just last week, Microsoft issued its biggest every security fix.  You can read about it here. Microsoft had to specifically address vulnerabilities in it Windows operating system which could allow hackers to take control of your PC. This isn’t good news. From the article linked above, “Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in […]

This story details how a Swedish professor’s laptop was stolen, but the thief  later returned his data. The prof. stated that, “ “This story makes me feel hope for humanity.” What?  hello!  Your laptop was stolen!  Sure, I understand that your data probably accounted for  months, maybe even years, of research.  But don’t ya think […]

On Saturday, a tree fell (or was being cut down, I’m not really clear on the details) and took out the power lines.  This knocked out my power.  When power was restored at about 5:30 P.M., I was still offline. I wasn’t able to get service restored unitl this morning.  My ISP, Fairpoint Communications, worked […]