Geeksters #088 – National CyberSecurity Month

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Martin Obando, Tim Bowermeister, Mitch Hamanand PCFreddy talk about computer repair

Episode 88 Show Notes

Hosts:

Tim Bowermeister

Mitch Haman

Martin Obando

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Hi guys,

I’ve been listening to the show for a little while now, and I wanted to drop a little feedback. I’ve noticed a few times that you’ll wonder if you’re boring people with the details of a tedious repair job. I don’t think it’s boring at all. I like listening to the conversation, but I also value the breakdown of a problem and solution. So basically, keep it up.

I also wanted to relay something that I stumbled upon related to your conversation on the last show I listened to about data recovery. I can’t remember who it was, but one of you said you had seen a thumb drive full of shortcuts that the owner was able to open as if they were files previously, but now they are just shortcuts. I ran into a similar situation. A customer gave me a thumb drive with music on it, but they said it was all links, no music.

I wasn’t about to plug a random thumb drive into my computer, so I fired up my ubuntu usb drive. Anyway, the long and the short of it is that while viewing the drive in Ubuntu, the links and the music files were all visible. Back on my customer’s windows machine, only the .lnk files were available. (I checked the folder view options, but nothing worked there.) So, I don’t know what the deal is here, but back in ubuntu, I copied the music to another drive, reformatted the thumbdrive, copied it all back, and the customer had their music. I never would have thought of this, I just happened upon it while I was trying to keep my computer safe.

Thanks for the show,

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Brad

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Thanks for the mention on the show,

Just a tip regarding your all nighter and the email server swap over.

If you want to test mail flow on a server before changing DNS over, i normally do the following to test it:

http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2003/monitoring-operations/Testing_Mail_Flow_using_Outlook_Express.html

Hope this help

Alister

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October – National CyberSecurity Month

**** 10 tips for securing your smartphone

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/10/08/10-tips-for-securing-your-smartphone/

1. Always secure your smartphone with a password

Swype finger leaves greasy finger-trails

4 pin is an improvement, but strong passcode is ideal

2. Ensure that your device locks itself automatically 15 min may compromise, 2 – 5 min even id it’s a pain

3. Install security software

4. Only download apps from approved sources

5. Check your apps’ permissions

Calculator needs access to network

Flashlight needs access to camera

6. Don’t miss operating system updates

Advises rather than automatic updates

7. Be wary of any links you receive via email or text message

8. Encrypt your smartphone

9. Turn off automatic Wi-Fi connection

10. Turn off Bluetooth and NFC when not in use

**** Windows Updates (Happy Birthday 10 yeas old — Patch Tuesday)

8 Updates, Includes critical update IE11 on Windows 8/8.1

http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/10/microsoft-patch-tuesday-october-2013.html

**** Windows 8.1 release date October 18th

Boot to desktop

Start button

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4663074/microsoft-announces-windows-8-1-rtm

**** windows 7 imaging

http://forensit.blogspot.com/2010/09/changing-default-profile-on-windows-7.html

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