The Heartbleed Bug: Our Statement and Recommendations

The “Heartbleed bug” (formally named CVE-2014-0160) is a critical security bug discovered in some versions of OpenSSL (a piece of software that provides encryption on a large number of websites throughout the world). This bug can be exploited by hackers to read bits memory from of a protected server. The exposed memory could contain anything...
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Scam Alert – DNS Services

Website owners beware, another company is making a strong move to confuse and scare business owners into purchasing unnecessary services.  We’ve seen domain registration companies send fake renewal notices to business owners to try to trick them into paying the wrong company (Domain Registry of America for one).  Over the last few weeks we’re seeing...
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No More Mozy Unlimited

Sadly, one of our favorite online backup services, Mozy.com, has dropped their unlimited plan. Mozy was one of the first giants in the game of online backup, and the first one that Computer Courage strongly recommended.  Over the years, their prices have gone up, and their service has failed to evolve with the competition. If...
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We Were Voted Number 1 in Computer Services in the East Bay by the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate.com!

Computer Courage is proud to announce that we were ranked the number one “Computer Services” company in the East Bay and the number four company in the whole Bay Area in SFGate.com’s “Best of the Bay List“. See the results page here.  The top 3 companies are all San Francisco based, as you can see....
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