Author Archives: Wired Nation
Awards & Accolades
Wired Nation is recognized as the 2010 Small Business Heavyweight by New Mexico Business Weekly
In business for over 15 years, Wired Nation receives accolades for our staying power in business and uniqueness of our service offering. Read all about it…
What is IPv6 and Why Should You Care?
You mean we are running out of IP addresses on the Internet??? Yes, it’s true, sort of. IP addresses are used by computers to find each other on the Internet.
Each device has its own IP address (roughly, because some devices hide behind other devices such as a firewall, which uses its IP address for those devices).
We have been …
Don’t Click that Link!
Don’t ever click links in email. Don’t ever click links in email.
Did I say that twice? Good, maybe now it will sink in. This article from the New York Times is about spearphishing, which are emails that are targeted directly at you or your organization and usually contain a link to a website that does bad …
Wanna Know Who Gets Hacked?
This website has a searchable chronology of all reported data breaches 2005 to the present.
You can search by the organizational types that were breached (government, educational, financial, nonprofit) and the type of breach (unintended disclure, hacking or malware, payment card freud), the month and year it occured and in some cases it will even tell you what the damage was. …
Your BlackBerry and Electronic Surveillance
Who cares about intercepting your BlackBerry?
This Christian Science Monitor article reveals some startling information about how different nations use electronic surveillance for gathering commercial intel. This quote from the article says it all:
“America’s real crown jewels are not our government secrets but our intellectual property,” writes former White House cyber security adviser Richard Clarke in a 2010 book …
How Businesses Can Protect Themselves From Hackers
Given the numerous products and promises of the information technology (IT) security industry and the frequent news stories about data breaches, it’s not surprising that business owners don’t know where to start when it comes to protecting themselves from information-highway robbers. Some wonder why they should spend money on sophisticated security systems when hackers can get around them.
What is IPv6 and Why Should You Care?
You mean we are running out of IP addresses on the Internet??? Yes, it’s true, sort of. IP addresses are used by computers to find each other on the Internet.
Each device has its own IP address (roughly, because some devices hide behind other devices such as a firewall, which uses its IP address for those devices).
We have been …