Since the invention of the cassette player, headphones have become more and more of a staple for everyday life. The problem that many people face now a days is, what kind of headphones should you buy?

Last week we received 2 phone calls from consumers in Missouri and Tennessee asking about our Techs calling them on the phone and trying to charge them from $250 to $350 to reset their passwords and fix their IP addresses, because they were unable to connect to Netflix.  Our receptionist, talked to the first person, who thank goodness hadn’t given the scammers her credit card, and explained that we did not work in Missouri, nor did our techs call consumers about broken computers.  The woman was relieved that she did not share her credit card information.  The receptionist shared this information with me and I asked her if anyone else called, please route the call to me.

Splunk Enterprise Security App

In a previous blog post (read here) we discussed the Splunk product portfolio. Splunk can be beneficial in the security space using the Splunk Enterprise App for Security. This is a paid for App in their App store, and can give you great visibility into your enterprise security platform.

Surface Pro AC power cords: Safety Recall Notice

AC Power Cords for the Microsoft Surface Pro, Microsoft Surface Pro 2, and certain Microsoft Surface Pro 3’s

Effective January 21, 2016, at 7:00am Pacific Standard Time (US West Coast time), in cooperation with various government regulatory agencies, Microsoft has initiated a voluntary recall for AC power cords (the cord that plugs into an electrical outlet) supplied with the Microsoft Surface Pro and Microsoft Surface Pro 2, and with any Microsoft Surface Pro 3 purchased prior to March 15, 2015 (“pre-March 15, 2015 Surface Pro 3’s”).

VMware NSX Security

VMware has been working on enhancing the security in the Virtual Datacenter for a while now. NSX is a few years into it’s production lifecycle. We’ve seen several major revisions as well as a 3^rd party partner eco system develop. NSX is really divided up into two parts, Security and Routing/Network services. In this post I’m going to cover the NSX security components. That’s not to discredit the Routing and Network service components, because there is great value in those, however they have their place and there is a lot of features related to it. The routing part really needs it’s own post. Nonetheless the two components are included in the product when you license it.