The Internet search engine Shodan has made a splash by getting a spotlight on multiple blogs and sites like CNN this month. There is a lot of sniffing and crawling that happens on the internet; Shodan's niche is the darker side of the internet - sites that aren't...
A little over a month ago, my notebook crashed with a corrupted hard drive after an improper shutdown. I decided to take the plunge and go to Windows 8 instead of re-installing Windows 7 and all of my programs, because I had a good backup of all my...
During the economic downturn, many of our clients deferred server upgrades for longer than is wise or recommended. Now that the worst of the recession seems over, many companies are replacing aged file servers. In addition to the usual Windows Server...
Ensuring that your website is protected against hackers is no longer a difficult task. With the fast growth of WordPress sites, protecting yourself from outside intrusion is very important, and is as simple as clicking the update button. WordPress is frequently...
One of our main philosophies at SpireTech is to ask "why" - not what. Our motivation is to understand what you want to accomplish so we can find the best way to support your goal, rather than throwing money and equipment at a problem that may be misunderstood....
Your smartphone just got passé. It started with Pebble, a smartwatch, that recently started shipping the fruits of a very successful kickstarter campaign. They were able to raise over 100 times their $100,000 goal last year. Now, Apple, Google, LG, and...
Password Cracking I came across an article that has been making the rounds this past month that you can read here. It's the story of one editor's (Nate Anderson of Ars Technica) foray into password cracking and it can be very eye opening to the world of password...
SpireTech had been searching for a cost-effective solution for Cloud server connectivity for our clients for several years. Everything we looked at was either too expensive, did not provide security and control over where the data resides, or did not work as...
At the end of January it became illegal to unlock your smartphone for use on a different provider network. The expiration of exemption to part of the Digital Media Copyright Act (DMCA) by the Librarian of Congress meant people who purchased a smartphone could not...
We continue to note that Java vulnerabilities and patches continue to be discovered and issued at an alarming rate. Note that Java is different from Javascript. Javascript is very common and runs in your browser and is not subject to these...