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It appears that the domain registrar Ascio Technologies has been targeted by a group of turkish hackers. As a result, many websites including those of major corporations including Acer and United Parcel Service are being redirected, giving them the appearance of being hacked. While this does not affect the servers hosting data owned by the affected…

Following Comodo’s improper issuance of certificates to sites such as Google, we have now been made publically aware of the same thing happening at the Certificate Authority diginotar.nl. A certificate for *.google.com was issued, and it appears that the recipient is the Iranian government. It is currently unclear why this certificate was issued, but it is…

I see it every Fall, a new computer repair company starts offering their services on a domain oddly similar to GainesvilleComputer.com. Whether they are trying to ‘borrow’ our good reputation or just looking for an extremely long domain name we’ll never know for certain. What I do know is this: a virus infection can rarely be…

A number of Google Apps customers are experiencing problems accessing Google Adsense or Doubleclick services after their accounts have been migrated or transitioned to the new Google Apps infrastructure.  This problem leaves users with no place to turn and no resolution in sight with disturbing messages like: Unauthorized Access We apologize for the inconvenience, but…

Update: Apple has released security update 2011-003 which should remove most instances of this malware automatically. Details about the removal process provided by this security patch can be found here. You should receive this update automatically the next time your computer checks for system software updates. In addition, Apple Support document HT4650 outlines Apple’s recommended…

Recovering when Google Apps fails the Enterprise This is a story about IT, the cloud and all the great and terrible things that happen when the two come together.  In many ways cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) is a blessing for understaffed, overworked Information Technology departments who are expected to deliver the…

If you are using newer versions of Open Office or Libre Office on a macintosh computer you might experience the dreaded JRE error. This error causes all sorts of problems including causing the program to freeze and making it impossible to cancel out of some dialogue boxes. Fortunately, there is a fix.  For those of…

If you run an ecommerce website and notice orders seem unusually slow today, it could be that payments are not being properly processed. Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, Amazon, and other companies who have cut off service to Wikileaks have suffered attacks on their websites by the groups 4chan and “anonymous” who are using Direct Denial of…