PodcastsComputer security is a complex subject, and staying safe is no easy task. Paraphrasing a quote attributed to security analyst and cryptographer Bruce Schneier, the only secure computer in the world is unplugged, encased in concrete, and buried underground — and even that one might be vulnerable. This reality aside, it’s still important from time [...]
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2:34: Stands for extensible business language and is based on XML. Used to communicate business and financial info. Why use it? SEC and AICPA suggestion and also better than a [...]
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“We’re sorry, the party you are calling cannot be reached. At the tone, please leave a message. After you are done, stop speaking, then hang up, or press: Pound. To leave a callback number: Press. Five. To page this person: Press. Seven. At the tone, Eastern Standard Time Will Be: Eight. Forty. Five. And. Nine. [...]
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Everybody has heard of web browser bookmarks (aka “favorites”), links to web pages stored within your browser for easy access to websites you want to visit again. But did you know that bookmarks are capable of storing more than just URLs? Modern web browsers allow you to store JavaScript (or “JS” hereafter; JavaScript is a [...]
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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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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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“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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