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30% off APC 1500VA Compact UPS Battery Backup & Surge Protector

Credit to Author: DealPost Team| Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 06:33:00 -0800

An APC UPS provides backup power power and surge protection to power and protect your PC or Mac, network router, gaming consoles like Xbox and PS4, AV and other business electronics from the dangers of power surges, spikes, lightning and power outages. By powering your critical electronics with a backup battery during blackouts, you ensure personal and professional connectivity when it matters most. Improvements in efficiency, size and surge protection come at an affordable price, making the Back-UPS Pro mini-tower battery backup UPS models a perfect solution for your power protection needs. Right now the Back-UPS Pro from APC averages 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, where its typical list price of $170 is discounted 30% to $119. See this deal now on Amazon.

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But what about all those signs that say 'Free Wi-Fi'?

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 05:24:00 -0800

IT pilot fish sets up his family’s home router, and it’s working fine. But soon he realizes he can improve security by limiting who gets access to his Wi-Fi.

“The router had a feature where I could lock it down by MAC address, so I ran around the house getting the MAC address for every device and entered them into the router’s address table for which devices to allow access,” says fish.

“I noticed one MAC address accessing my router wasn’t on my list. I enabled MAC address security and that one fell off, so I was glad I locked my router down.

“It was a nice day, so I went outside on my porch. I saw my sister-in-law, who lived two houses up the street from me, shouting something and waving for me to come over.

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Win10 FCU December patch KB 4054517 fails big time

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 06:20:00 -0800

Some subset of users of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, version 1709, report persistent bugs with this month’s Patch Tuesday missive, KB 4054517. Many of those reporting problems are using recent Surface devices. Microsoft has not acknowledged any problems. Official sites only offer the old “Gawrsh, you need to Restore/Restore/Reinstall” pabulum — and it doesn’t help.

What kinds of problems? They run quite a gamut. @jwhiz56 reports on AskWoody:

This KB installed on my MS Surface Pro 3, my HP HPDV8T laptop but refuses to install on my 2017 Surface Pro (purchased just before Thanksgiving). I’ve reset it multiple ways (the OS) and the update either sits at 99% downloaded, or it fails on installation. my C:windowslogsCBS directory eats up ALL of my disk free space. I’ve tried all hints/suggestions on the Microsoft forums related to this KB. when I downloaded the standalone version for my computer x86/windows 10, it says it’s not applicable to my computer.

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TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 11, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:06:45 +0000

If you read my weekly blog or follow me on Twitter, you know that I’m a huge sports fan. Unfortunately, when you don’t live in the town of your favorite team, you can be subject to blackout rules. So, my husband and I decided to purchase NFL Sunday Ticket from DirecTV. Fast forward to a…

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Apple and Cisco just improved security in the iOS enterprise

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 06:47:00 -0800

Apple and Cisco have struck yet another blow for enterprise IT. They know that iOS is the most secure mobile solution, but that’s not everything because mobile threats are incredibly complex these days.

The enigma code

Here’s a scenario: You work in an enterprise with perhaps 1,000 other employees. One morning, perhaps 50 of you woke to find an authentic-seeming email in your in-box that requests you click on a link to update some system related to the work you do. While many employees remembered not to click on that link, a small number did click. No one thought too much of the email — spam is frequent and most just thought the mail was aimed at them.

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