In the past, if an employer wanted to update his staff’s training in certain areas he would have to send them all off to take week long (or longer) computer courses. This caused a number of problems. Number one, the staff is being trained in a setting that is different than their home [...]

Catching up on virus information, here is a pretty thorough article on the Storm Worm that was unleashed not too long ago.

When a new computer virus strikes, usually in the first article reporting it there will be someone’s assessment of a dollar figure in damages. Whether its lost sales because of down time, lost customers, replacement of hardware, cleaning up of software and databases, or just the labor of the technicians who repair the problem, [...]

Here is a story regarding David Farr, a hospital respiratory therapist who was fired from his job after pornographic sites were found to have been bookmarked on the computer he used.  Farr claims that the hospital did not update or properly maintain security on their network and that the sites were automatically bookmarked by malware [...]

Crystal and Raymond Collette had no idea what they were getting into in July of 2005 when they bought their brand new computer home.  In a 50+ million dollar lawsuit against Dell, the Collette’s claim the following happened.

The original computer was defective, they received four different replacement computers from Dell and claim that all of [...]