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Updates of Note: July 2025
In addition to the regular feature and product patches typically released, there were a few updates of note last month that may be applicable to your site including: WordPress 6.8.2 was released in mid-July and installed on your site shortly after. This minor update...
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Woodstock Chamber SOHO Presentation: Heartbleed One Month Later
Heartbleed’s been garnering a lot of press in the past month, and with good reason: with over a half-million websites affected and tens of thousands of routers, storage servers, firewalls, video cameras, and more vulnerable to the bug, it’s one of the largest security...
Tech!Alert: Microsoft Patches IE Zero Day Exploit
Long-time Windows users know to be on the lookout for security updates from Microsoft the second Tuesday of every month. However, this month's payload of patches includes a fix for an Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild. Zero-Day?...
Tech!Alert: New CryptoLocker Ransomware Hits Homes and Small Business
It's not unusual to see (and easily dismiss) breathless headlines proclaiming "worst virus ever!" After all, most of these sensationalistic-type headlines lead to blog posts that share little "new" information about malicious software and, instead, serve only to help...
ESC! Technologies Group Joins Dell’s ParnerDirect Program
Woodstock, IL -- ESC! Technologies Group is pleased to announced we are now a Registered Dell Partner in Dell's PartnerDirect program. This new business relationship with Dell will allow ESC! Technologies Group to better serve our customers through improved one-stop...
Tech!Note: Google’s Shared Endorsements Policy and You
If you use Google's services, and that includes Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google+, Maps, Google Groups, Google Play, Google Apps for Business, or any of myriad other services the Mountain View, CA company offers AND you've created an account to use those services --...
Woodstock Chamber SOHO Presentation: 5 Techniques to Improved Web Presence
In this video of the October 2nd, 2013 presentation to the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce SOHO Group, Mike leads a talk focusing on 5 techniques every business can use to improve their web presence. Below are links to many of the products and services mentioned during...
PPANI October Presentation Notes
I'd like to thank the Professional Photographers Associate of Northern Illinois for allowing me to speak to them this morning about Password Security and Backup Strategies for Photographers. Due to a technical glitch (on my part), only a portion of the video from...
Tech!Alert: Adobe Issues Customer Security Advisory
On October 4th, 2013 Adobe Systems Incorporated issued a critical Security Advisory to their customer base alerting users that hackers gained access to Adobe's databases and harvested nearly 3 million Adobe IDs, encrypted passwords, encrypted credit or debit card...
Mike to Present at PPANI’s October Meeting
On Wednesday, October 9th, ESC! Technologies Group will be speaking at the Professional Photographers Association of Northern Illinois' Members Program on the importance of password security and backup strategies for photographers. In this two-part talk held at the...
Mike Scheduled to Speak at Woodstock Chamber’s SOHO Meeting
At this month’s Woodstock Chamber SOHO meeting to be held October 2nd from 5-6 PM at the Golden Eagle Community Bank meeting room, ESC! Technologies Group will lead a discussion focusing on 5 techniques every business can use to improve their web presence. When...