Password Safe

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Jacob Prystowsky

Whether it’s your bank’s website, OSCPA’s membership resources, or even just an email account, nearly everything we do on the Internet requires us to authenticate ourselves with a password. But passwords provide a virtually inevitable quandary: Any password that easily can be remembered can also probably easily be guessed. Worse yet, it is difficult enough [...]

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Nothing to hide? Hide it anyway

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Jacob Prystowsky

If you’re like most Americans, you probably value your privacy. You’re probably not ashamed of anything, and you’re not doing anything wrong, but just on the principle of the matter, you would prefer to keep your private life private. If a stranger knocked on your door and told you that he was going to watch [...]

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Consider keeping some important data online

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Adam Mahle

It is common for data security folks to tell you to be careful about what data you keep online and the risks associated. But, I’m here to tell you why you should keep some of your data online. Because, while you should be careful about what data you put online – you should be careful about what you [...]

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Our data, wherever we are and whenever we need them

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jacob Prystowsky

“Cloud computing,” like social networking (LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, et al.), is all the rage in this new era of distributed, collaborative, high-tech solutions to what are now everyday problems (some previously unknown until the time at which we arrived at a solution and forgot how we could have ever lived without them), and in the area [...]

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Cloud Computing

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Joel Musheno

Recently, there has been a push by companies like Microsoft, SalesForce, Amazon and Google, to use their cloud computing services as a platform to build applications. What makes this any different than running server within your office and storing your business data there? Nothing. You’re just outsourcing number crunching power and storage. If you use [...]

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Perl? I’ve seen those

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Joel Musheno

So this morning I was asked to get content from a website out in plain text. Visually, this means that the HTML code over on the left, needs to be converted to straight text that can be viewed in notepad without all of the tags. As I have done some screen scraping in the past [...]

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