Managed Solutions

Welcome to Managed Solutions

Joe Hackman — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:06:56 +0000

Hi I am Joe Hackman the founder of Managed Solutions. I’d like to welcome you to the website of the enterprise that has supported me for the past 13+ years, and the most recent four years my growing family as well. I started the company in January of 1997. We help people improve their business by leveraging technology. Managed Solutions is a systems, Internet, and networking managed services provider that specializes in helping businesses deploy, improve and maintain stable and secure out sourced technology solutions. On this site we strive to provide relevant information on issues that affect our client base and technology users around the globe, in fact you can sign up for free to get alerts on many subjects here. You will also find some information specific to Managed Solutions and the services we perform for our customers on this site. Our home office is in Danville, California with representatives working throughout the greater San Francisco Bay area and beyond. Please accept my invitation to you to share content on this site that you like and would love to hear your feedback.

Update Microsoft Office Products – Joe Reviews SB10-074 Cert Report (Video)

Joe Hackman — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:24:22 +0000

Here is a review of this weeks Cert Advisory. This update contains the infamous Arucer.dll that came with the charging software on the Energizer Duo USB. Also definitely recommend updating your Microsoft Office products if you haven’t recently. This is a weekly feature here at Managed Solutions. If you have questions about this video post a comment here or ask on our Facebook Fan Page.

Searching for Corey Haim leads to Rogue Antivirus Software

Joe Hackman — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:26:17 +0000

This is an example of creative Blackhat SEO poisoning attacks. The crooks use unscrupulous methods to build strong response to an emerging key word exploiting a recent event. In this case they exploit the death of Corey Haim to direct people to Malware masquerading as antivirus software. As noted in this article on 17% of AV products would detect this product, meaning 83% of products would allow it to infect your PC. http://amplify.com/u/3616

Solving Internet Security – Go After the Money

Joe Hackman — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:15:43 +0000

The environment for operating internet crime syndicates has become a bit bumpier in recent months. Earlier this month we shared news about the arrests in the Mariposa Botnet. This recent news involves an ISP in Kazakhstan that has become a host for many of the delivery methods for Malware and Botnets. This caused a significant drop in Malware activity. By going after the money and making it more difficult for the companies that allow these illegal enterprises to persist we add a high deterrent to the would be perpetrators. http://amplify.com/u/350d

An Easy way to get Free Support, Enter to Win Prizes and Earn Money for Charity

Joe Hackman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:50:09 +0000

We want to be big on Facebook, and with your help we can get there and help others who are less fortunate at the same time. The benefits of being a fan on our Facebook page are numerous:

You can get tech support for free, just post your questions on the wall.
You can meet new interesting people who are friends, vendors and clients of Managed Solutions.
You can access a condensed feed of our content and pick the posts you’re most interested in.
By joining us as a fan you can earn money for charity.
You can win cool prizes just by becoming a fan.

We would much rather donate money to charity than pay for advertising. For that reason we have started the first of what may be many membership drives for our page that will benefit a charity. Effective now 3/11/2010 we have 401 fans on our page. For every new fan we get between now and May 13th, we will donate $1 up to a total of $500 to the Danville/Sycamore Valley Rotary Club on behalf of our supporters.

Attackers can crack 1 in 80 Accounts

Joe Hackman — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:25:04 +0000

This is an interesting study and the findings are very useful to improving email security, particularly with webmail type services like Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. They found in this study that attackers were able to crack one in eighty accounts by guessing answers. The results surprised the group conducting the study, they did not anticipate it would be this statistically easy to do. So word to the wise, use the more complicated verification answers whenever possible if you want your accounts to remain secure. We’re usually given a number of choices when we sign up. http://amplify.com/u/2v47

Update Adobe Acrobat, Again – Joe Reviews SB10-060 Cert Report (Video)

Joe Hackman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:22:57 +0000

Here is a review of this weeks Cert Advisory. Adobe Acrobat has returned, please be sure to update! This is a weekly feature here at Managed Solutions. If you have questions about this video post a comment here or ask on our Facebook Fan Page.

Arrests made in dismantling of Mariposa Botnet, consisting 13million infected PC’s!

Joe Hackman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:46:36 +0000

Big news in the world of internet security. A Botnet this large is responsible for sending a tremendous volume of Spam emails and could be used to wreak even greater Havoc. This is a big win for the good guys, we really need to unravel these criminal networks, the event of arrests in this case is the big news. This is likely to make people reconsider their path in this area of cyber-crime. http://amplify.com/u/299i

Fake Microsoft “Security Essentials” in the wild.

Joe Hackman — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:18:15 +0000

A very popular tactic by malware and virus writers is to masquerade as security software. Recently something has showed up in the wild that alleges to be Microsoft Security Essentials. This imposter not unlike many similar packages downloads and installs malicious components that undermine security settings on the infected host and prevents access to antivirus websites. The most popular method for packages like this are browser popups or carefully crafted links in Emails. If you think you may have been infected or received an Email that may link you to this or other Malware, Managed Solutions provides free support via our Facebook page at http://bit.ly/7zaVpx

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http://amplify.com/u/25fm

Google Chrome Vulnerabilities – Joe Reviews SB10-053 Cert Report (Video)

Joe Hackman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:35:11 +0000

Here is a review of this weeks Cert Advisory. Surprising number of Google Chrome issues this week, luckily Chrome is updated constantly and quietly without prompting. This is a weekly feature here at Managed Solutions.