One of the easiest and best ways to secure your online presence is to create a strong password.  Cyber criminals are using  more and more advanced tools as part of their arsenal to hack your online identity.  One of these tools is figuring out what your password is.  We will highlight both those things you should do when creating a strong password and highlight those things you should NOT do when creating a password.

Things to NOT do:

• Use words that are in the Dictionary (password).
• Spell words backwards (drowssap), with common misspellings (pasword), and abbreviations (psswrd).
• Repeating characters or simple sequences. (dddddd, 1111111, 12345678, abcdefg) or adjacent letters on your keyboard (asdfgh).
• Use personal information (name, birthdate, social, license #).

Things to Do:

• Make your passwords longer (eight or more characters).
• Make passwords complex.  Don’t just use letters and numbers, add puncutation and symbols (^, #, ?, +, ~).
• Change passwords often.  Try to remind yourself to change your passwords about 3 to 4 times a year.
• Don’t use the same password for everything.  Once your password has been obtained, cyber criminals can use your password everywhere that you have used that password.

 Creating a Strong Password and Remembering it!

Fake Online Bank Insurance Account
A fake insurance account that claims to insure total amount of funds in the bank account is presented to the target.  The fake insurance account, is in actuality, a real bank account that belongs to a money mule.  The program then informs the target that they will be protected against any losses from online fraud by this insurance plan.  The last step of the scheme is to have the target give the OK to authorize a transaction that will activate the online banking fraud insurance.

Transfer of Online Banking Funds
There is no hint that any funds will or need to be transferred out of their bank account for this insurance to activate it.  To activate the insurance, the target enters a one-time password that is sent to their phone or other mobile device.  What is really happening at this time is that the target is now becoming the victim by approving a transfer of funds from their bank account to the cyber-criminals money mule account.

Fraud Creativity
“Once they have compromised an endpoint, the ability of Tatanga and the other cybercrime platforms to commit online fraud is limited only by the imagination of criminals,” said Trusteer’s Ayelet Heyman. “As this latest scheme illustrates fraudsters do not lack creativity when it comes to developing new methods that trick victims into authorizing fraudulent transactions.”

Remember the old saying, “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”?
Well this latest cyber attack typifies that saying.   Having an effective Internet Security and/or Network Solution platform in place will eliminate these types of cyber threats.  But in the event that you don’t have an effective security solution in place, just remember this saying and avoid agreeing to anything online that seems to good to be true, because it probably is.

To setup VLAN on a Dell Switch

1.  To add the VLAN

Switching ->VLAN->VLAN Membership

2.  Select Ports to assign VLAN to.

3.  To assign IP to VLAN

Routing -> IP -> Interface Configuration

4.  To View VLAN Routing

Routing -> VLAN Routing -> Summary

Or

Routing -> Router -> Router Table

5.  To Configure Routing Tables

Routing -> Router -> Configured Routers

6.  SAVE configuration

System -> File Management -> Copy Files

To Change a Port Membership

1.  Switching -> VLAN -> Port Settings

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The “Gem of the Hills” award is a monthly award presented by the South Lake Chamber to those individuals who best exemplify the best of South Lake business community.  These individuals are not only active in contributing positively to the growth and success of the business community in South Lake, but also contribute to the overall success and prosperity of South Lake as a whole by their extracurricular and volunteer activities that help in other areas of the community.

For the month of March, the recipient of the “Gem of the Hills” award was Clinton Pownall.  Clinton was the recipient for this award in part due to his activities within the South Lake Chamber as member, committee member, and trustee, and his activities outside the chamber, such as being an active member of the Lake County Schools Career and Technical Education Information Technology Programs Review Committee and the Lake County district Technology Advisory Committee (TAC), among many others.

Clinton Pownall, Owner and President of Computer Business Consultants, Inc., was recognized at a Lake County School Board meeting on March 26, 2012, for his outstanding work and efforts as part of the Lake County Schools Career and Technical Education (CTE) Business and Marketing Programs Review Committee.

The purpose of the review was to determine whether or not the Career and Technical Education programs and skills taught in Lake County public schools reflect current and projected workplace needs. Representatives of business and industry volunteered their time and expertise to do an in-depth examination of current and potential high school program curricula to ensure that students learn the skills they need to prepare for both higher education and an entry-level career. Other committee members included Wendy Terry, CPA, Partner with Withum, Smith & Brown (Chair); Dr. Robin Revis-Pyke, Dean of Admission, Financial Aid and Marketing, Montverde Academy; Justin Infurna, Esq. Boyette, Cummins; and Pat Meeker, Education Director of South Lake Hospital; Stacey Sewall, Membership & Marketing Director of the Bella Collina Club and Shani Hanberry, Withum, Smith & Brown.

Mr. Pownall also served on the Career and Technical Education Information Technology Programs Review Committee and is an active member of the district Technology Advisory Committee (TAC).

Lake County Schools features robust CTE programs at all of its high and middle schools. The curriculum consists of 29 career preparatory high school programs and five middle school programs. Lake County’s 10 middle schools and eight high schools house 100 state-of-the-art CTE laboratories. Programs of study are varied and technically challenging, and include Plant Biotechnology, Engineering, Gaming and Simulation, Automation and Production (Robotics), Culinary Arts, Allied Health, Television Production and Architectural Drafting (these are only eight of the 29 high school programs offered). Thirty-eight CTE Career and Professional (CAP) Academies provide students the opportunity to earn industry certifications, including Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), American Design Drafting Association (ADDA), Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) and Adobe Dreamweaver. In 2009-2010, 78 students earned industry certifications in CAP Academies. The next year the number skyrocketed to 413.

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Cause: This is usually caused by having a mixed Active Directory Server environment with 2003 domains & member Server 2008 servers & Windows 7 PCs on a Server 2003 domain.

Solution:

1. Unplug the network cables on the Server/PC that is inaccessible..
2. Login on to the Server/PC that is inaccessible with an account that has Administrator privileges.
3. Plug the server network cable back in while logged on.
4. Change the domain name from FQDN (xyz123.local ) to the short name (xyz123).
5. Reboot the server and log back in as the domain user and all should be fine.