UPDATING YOUR SECURITY

If you run Windows OS software on your computer I kindly ask you to read the article linked below for your personal protection. My "Wizard" predecessor Dennis Turner and I have mentioned some of the items listed below, however this is a pretty complete documentation on how to be safe in a dangerous world.

How to Secure Your Windows Computer and Protect Your Privacy

Last week, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for its Macintosh 2008 Office suite. It has a variety of fixes and changes that have promised to improve performance and security to the suite of apps that closely parallels the Office Suite for Windows users. You can read about it here … Description of Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (12.1.0)

And download it here… Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (12.1.0)

Now to show you how far Linux has come and that the two large OS's mentioned above are not the only game in town. This announcement is impressive and should turn some heads that are unaware of this:

New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux. Read all about it. During the last few years, the New York Stock Exchange has migrated from HP to IBM to Sun Solaris and finally arriving at Red Hat Linux.

If you work in an organization, you may be surprised to find out that the most important factor in attaining organizational security is you. Do you know what your local IT policies or where your IT policies can be found? 

You can find out, and learn how to be part of the solution rather than any problem by reading:  Attaining Organizational Security.

Microsoft has finally released long awaited Service Pack 3 (SP3) for XP users. Nearly 1200 patches and fixes are included in the update. It's been predicted by some that this update will keep many folks who have not jumped to the Vista platform to stay where they are in XP.

You can get the update from Microsoft via Automatic Updates, or if you prefer to install via an iso and roll your own CD it can be downloaded at Windows XP Service Pack 3 – ISO-9660 CD Image File.

That's it for this week. Travel safe, physically and virtually.  And don't forget to take a moment during this Memorial Day weekend to thank all in our military who sacrificed so much to preserve America.

Marco