Customers of the Week

This week the customers HeroTechs was able to help consisted of:

• Dr. Mazza and his Synergy Multi-Care Professionals consisting of 3 multi-disciplinary offices (You got Pain? Se my friend Ron he is the best well rounded approach to curing your blues)
  
  
• Mike Grannum of Cedarhurst Florist (Truly the best florist on LI, we’re talking the Garden of Eden when they do an arrangement)

• Joe Procella of Rose Reality Management (This is a rising star company on Long Island)
  
  
• Martin Levine of Pillar Construction (These people build the best commercial properties around NY)
  
  
• Cheryl Mera of the American Barter Association (You want to keep your cash and still get quality goods and services join ABE, Barter is great in these economic times)
  
• Residential Customers consisted of Pam O’Brian, Josh Mendel, Joe Porcella, Dan Rubinacker
  

HeroTechs is also working on our next charity awareness event. More details to come soon. Check out HeroHope for more information

If HeroTechs can help all of these people we are sure to be able to help you too. For your next computing or website need please contact us at 1-888-4-HEROTECHS that 1-888-443-7683. or visit the HeroTechs.biz website for more information.

An article covered by Time magazine recently asked the question, “Could a Computer Glitch Have Brought Down Air France 447? It is extremely well written and inquisitive as are all of Time Magazines feature articles.

Read the synopsis of the Time article below:
As the French team leading the investigation into the Air France Flight 447 crash works through the multitude of likely and less likely disaster scenarios — from the repercussions of stormy conditions to an act of terrorism — perhaps among the most difficult to assess will be possible flight computer malfunctions. Air France CEO Pierre-Henry Gourgeon noted on Monday that immediately preceding AF447's disappearance, automatic messages sent by the plane indicated "multiple technical failures." As details emerge regarding these messages, experts will struggle to understand whether they were the inevitable result of the plane's breaking up or indicators of the failures that led to the accident. (Read "What Brought Down Air France Flight 447?")

Gourgeon said the "succession of a dozen technical messages" sent by AF447 showed that "several electrical systems had broken down" immediately prior to the crash. A chronology of these messages acquired by the São Paolo daily Jornal da Tarde show that moments before the plane is believed to have plunged into the ocean, its autopilot became disengaged and the plane sustained damage to its stabilizing controls and flight systems, as well as a failure of the systems that were monitoring the aircraft's speed, altitude and direction: the ADIRU (Air Data Inertial Reference Units) and the ISIS (Integrated Standby Instruments System). These are key components in fly-by-wire systems, which use computers and wires instead of mechanics and hydraulics to control a plane's flight. (Watch TIME's video of the rescue of US Airways flight 1549.)

On Wednesday, TIME revisited an October 2008 incident in which a Qantas Airbus 330 — the same model as AF447 — unexpectedly went into a brief yet harrowing 20-second nosedive, causing multiple injuries and requiring an emergency landing. The investigation that followed blamed an ADIRU failure for the 330's uncommanded dive: one of the plane's three ADIRUs, which are designed to help the plane's flight-control computer fly the plane safely, began sending erroneous data spikes to the flight-control computer.

Posted By Time.com

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Critical Patches from Microsoft & Adobe

Microsoft will deliver ten patches next tuesday. Six of them are rated as critical.

One of the most serious flaws affects Internet Explorer 8.
Updated versions of Malicious Software Removal Tool and Windows Mail Junk Filter will also be released.

The article at Information Week also mentions that Adobe will release updates for Reader and Acrobat during the same day. These updates are for versions 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x. Adobe promised to release quarterly security updates and this batch will be the first.

Source: Information Week

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Conficker Still At IT! - Penetrating Nearly 50,000 Computers Every Day

Originally Published by SPAMfighter.com

According to security researchers at Symantec, the computer worm, Conficker, is still infecting systems worldwide at fast rate and will continue to infect computers of Fortune 1000 companies (top global companies).

After thorough analysis of the worm, researchers have concluded that it infects nearly 50,000 new computers every day, with Brazil, the US and India are the hardest hit countries. Researchers also add that the hype created by media about Conficker/Downadup has almost vanished, but the worm is still propagating worldwide.

To Read The Rest Click The Link:

http://www.spamfighter.com/News-12428-Conficker-Penetrating-Nearly-50000-Computers-Every-Day.htm

President Obama stresses need for computer security

President Obama stresses need for computer security

President Obama will choose a "cyber czar," someone to head the White House office of cyber security

Mark Fujii

As reported by Yahoo News, President Barack Obama announced that he will be naming a cyber czar to help bolster the security of America’s computer networks. “It’s now clear this cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation,” Obama said in his press conference. “We’re not as prepared as we should be, as a government or as a country.” Obama additionally added that “cyber czar” may not necessarily be the exact name of the position. Regardless, whoever is appointed by Obama to head the White House Office of Cyber Security will reportedly work directly under both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council....

To Read More:

http://www.collegenews.com/index.php?/article/president_obama_stresses_need_for_computer_security_05292009310/

How to read 300+ Articles a Day

A great new tool from Google is called, “Google alerts” and it is in beta form. To keep up to date with all new technological trends and new businesses requirements I read on average 300 articles per day. Now there would be no way I could imagine to read so much if I had to waste my time searching for the content so I have turned to Google alerts for the much needed help. Google alerts is like having a research team behind you looking for the data you require to read. I read to keep myself much further ahead of my competition. Reading allows me to keep my skills professionally generalist enough to work on any type of technology project but here is the important part…..Coupled my reading with my 15 years experience of business experience working on $$$$ Billion dollar networks managing $$$ multi-million dollar projects I enjoy the confidence that I know enough subject matter in all technology fields that I can maintain a sense of calm and clarity my customers require from their “Computer Guy”. Now my experiences have molded me to who I am…but who I will become is directly related to the knowledge I acquire moving forward and having a tool such as Google Alerts is just what the doctor ordered.


Here is what Google alerts do for you:
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.Some handy uses of Google Alerts include:

• Monitoring a developing news story
• Keeping current on a competitor or industry
• Getting the latest on a celebrity or event
• Keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams
  

To create your own Google alert go to:
http://www.google.com/alerts

To find a reputable website dedicated to computer security for the non technical person is hard to find. Enter http://www.yoursecurityresource.com/ which was created just for the purpose of educating the non technology professionals by using authors to interview the expert within the industry and then writing their findings in non layman’s terms. The site is heavily sponsored and promoted by Symantec the makers of Norton Antivirus so you know that the information contained within is trusted otherwise Symantec would have never put their name behind it. HeroTechs Inc. was fortunate enough to be used as an expert security source for Internet Threats within the following article:


NEW TARGETS: New Source of Internet Threat: Banner AdsBy Kim BoatmanLocated at: http://www.yoursecurityresource.com/articles/banner/index.html. We were fortunate enough to have Kim quote us 3 times within the article and the quotes are listed below for your convenience.


Quote 1:
The problem is particularly alarming because hackers often target high-volume websites with ads that don’t look suspicious, says Thomas K. McCabe, president of HeroTechs Inc., a Long Island, N.Y.-based computer service company. “There is plenty of advertising out there, but you can’t tell which ones are good versus which ones are not,’’ he warns.


Quote 2:
A popular ploy directs you to an infected site where a screen pops up showing that an antivirus scan has found viruses on your computer, says McCabe. You are directed to “click here” to remove the virus. Instead, clicking loads the malware onto your computer.“I witnessed this thing hitting my wife when she visited a legitimate cooking web site,’’ McCabe says. “She was about to hit the click here button, and I had to swing the mouse away.”


Quote 3:
Be smart when you click. The value of a banner ad is measured in its ability to get users to click on it. So a lot of banner ads pull out all the stops, and some go a little too far. “Ads that say ‘Click here to win a free whatever’ are preying on people’s vulnerability,” says Colburn. If you’re interested in an advertiser, type their web address into your browser or go to Google and find their website. “If you want to take an IQ test, go to Google and type in ‘IQ test’ and take a legitimate test rather than clicking on the ad,’’ says McCabe.


Please check out the entire article located on Your Security Resource:
http://www.yoursecurityresource.com/articles/banner/index.html

And be sure to check us out at http://www.herotechs.biz/ for more information about Long Island Computer Repair.