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Queue the music maestro… 2018 starts with a James Bond style explosion.  Too sidechannel attacks were published called Meltdown and Spectre resepectively.  They allow malicious actors to read memory addresses on a machine that does not belong to them.  What does this mean in simple terms?  Come and sit down on my knee young Padawan […]

Microsoft Cybersecurity Summit Keynote
March 29, 2016

Nearly thirteen years ago, I worked on the largest outbreaks in corporate history.  As a third-party validator for  ExecHot, the Top 500 Microsoft customers, I traveled to client sites to mitigate the impacts of Nimda, CodeRed and SQL Slammer.  Today I attended Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Virtual Summit.  For a professional with many years of current experience, […]

The Great Equalizer in the 1800’s Samuel Colt made men born unequal, equal. His Colt Peacemaker became the first easily maintainable firearm in human history. It made it possible for the unwashed masses to earn a means of defending themselves. This natural evolution to the American Experiment allowed people to augment or supplement their natural […]

Due to the awesome awesomeness of the NSA Virtual Nexus recommends that you get and use a PGP key to sign and encrypt your emails. Before you ask what PGP is, let us tell you why you care. SIGNING AND ENCRYPTING YOUR EMAILS MAKES THEM UNREADABLE TO THOSE WITHOUT THE PRIVATE KEY. Now, if you […]

Please enjoy the OSX Mavericks Beta Install.  We only show the actually Safari links for now.  We do not have multiple monitors in the field!  As soon as we get back-now that’s a promise.   Install Screen   Safari Top Sites and Reader   Please enjoy this video of the real Mavericks, the closest most […]

iOS 7.0 Beta First Look
June 11, 2013

At day one of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference we were treated with new MacBook Airs, MacPros, and iOS 7.0 Beta among other things.  Here at VN we of course downloaded and ate the dogfood immediately.  The first taste we give you are these screenshots of AirDrop on iOS, Safari multi-tabbed browsing improvements, Multitasking improvements, Apple […]