There was (is) a huge outage on the Time Warner Internet Access Network this morning. Starting around 4:30am a maintenance upgrade has gone horribly wrong. Which is to say, if your on Time Warner Cable it’s likely you can’t read this (until your service is restored, anyway). Here’s the constantly updating map of the Time...
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Change Your Passwords and UserNames Now
It appears that the “Russian Mob” has pulled off something big… Stealing 1.2 Billion (yes, with a B) usernames and passwords from a wide range of sites. Anytime something like this happens, OPENRSM suggests you change everything. Including usernames, passwords, on all accounts and computers. The New York Times has the story….
AT&T Has Security Breach, Doesn’t Bother To Tell Customers
Another day, another sad story about a big company losing customers private information, and not telling anyone about it. In April, AT&T confirms employees of an outside contractor hacked customers’ information including Social Security numbers. The contractors employees attempted to unlock phones to put them on another network. Did they sell the names/SSNs? Nobody (including...
How To Stop Annoying Interactive “Creepy” Ads
Have you noticed that when you search for something on Ebay, Amazon, Google, that the advertising on pages seem to know what you’ve been looking for? For Example, look up “LED 3051 Strips” on Google and suddenly ads for lighting fixtures, Ebay auctions, LED suppliers and the like now appear on every page you look...
OPENRSM Advises Changing AppleID Passwords Immediately
It seems to be Apple’s turn in the data wars between “fast buck” artists and real companies. Apple iPhones/Pads are locking up all over Australia and the UK and being held for ransom by a scammer that has managed to gain control of the devices. Apple has yet to comment but incidents in the US...
OPENRSM Advises All To Change Ebay and PayPal Passwords Immediatly
Last nite, an official PayPal blogpost contained nothing but a title… “eBay, Inc. to Ask All eBay users to Change Passwords.”. Which was quickly taken down only after being tweeted and posted to Facebook many times. Later, Ebay reported on it’s own official blog that their corporate network security had been breached… In late February...
Microsoft Raises Prices, Dramatically
Microsoft is having a difficult time with Windows8 and WindowsRT… Companies and People arn’t buying it. And, from the testing we’ve done so far, for good reason. But Microsoft is taking a decidedly interesting approach to slow sales of a product EVERYBODY has said they don’t need, don’t want, and they can’t really see any...
AT&T Usage Billing and Refuses To Say How It’s Computed
It seems that AT&T is playing games with it’s new “Usage Billing” forumlas. And it’s not pretty. We spotted this article on Slashdot today. One that our customers that utilize AT&T services should be very concerned with. You see, AT&T is now billing for how much data you consume. Which, on it’s face, sounds reasonable. ...
Windows8 – Now With In App Advertising!
Yes, you heard me right. And HotHardware.com is reporting it, and Microsoft is confirming it. Windows8 paid applications contain advertising. Right now ads f or Coca Cola, Ford, and Samsung have signed up (among others) that will show up in applications (like Finaance, Weather, News, etc.). With a “normal” operating system and applications (that you...
If You Are Using Sophos Anti-Virus You Need To Call
It has come to our attention that there are serious flaws that have been identified in Sophos Anti-Virus by security researchers at Google. OPENRSM has never used, nor provided, Sophos Anti-Virus. And it seems that our own internal evaluation to not provide or support Sophos has been sustained (for additional reasons) by Google. You can...