A recent update to Microsoft's anti-virus and anti-spyware solutions, Forefront and Security Essentials, tagged Google.com as a malicious site. An update went out a few hours later to correct this but it required users to run the update, to fix the previous update. While the issue was rather benign, it raises the question of how updates to programs that are supposed to protect you end up either costing you more time, or possibly even cause more problems for your systems.

An article released by Upgrade Your Life discusses how easy it is for someone to hack your online bank account at a public Wi-Fi spot. While you may be secure behind your own company's protection, an employee who has access to your bank logins can easily lead your company's financials into malicious hands. The article goes on to explain how easily you can be led astray by fake websites who then steal your login and now have your financial information.

A couple of weeks ago, I had a client who leases office space on the 5th floor of an 8 story building. I got a panicked call on a Monday that there was a fire on the 8th floor and that water may have seeped down to lower floors. We braced for the potential of having water soaked servers and prepped a team to go onsite. Thankfully, they suffered no water damage, but was a wake up call for them that even tough they had onsite backups, they needed to make sure their offsite system of file storage was safe.