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Zack is amazing! I have gone to him with computer issues for the past few years now and he always finds a way to fix things and at a reasonable price. This time I went to Advantage Computer Solutions to find a new laptop. I needed help because like most of us I had no… Read more “Amazing!”
Cannot say enough good things about Zack Rahhal and his team. Professional, smart, sensitive to small biz budgets and a helluva good guy. Could not operate my small biz without them!
stars indeed. So reliable and helpful and kind and smart. We call Al and he is “on it” immediately and such a FABULOUS teacher, patient and terrific. So happy with Advantage Computer Solutions and Al and his AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL STAFF.
I’ve been a customer of the staff at Advantage for many years now. They have never let me down! Whatever my need, however big or small my problem, they have been unfailingly helpful, friendly and professional. Services are performed promptly and effectively, and they are very fair with pricing, too. I am lucky to have… Read more “Whatever my need, unfailingly helpful”
I’ve known the Advantage Team for years. They are the absolute best techs in the field, bar none. I couldn’t tell you how many tens thousands of dollars they saved us over the years; they can be trusted to never scam anyone even though they would do so very easily. The turnaround time is also… Read more “Best Kept Secret”
I had an excellent experience with Advantage. Aside from being extremely professional and pleasant generally, Zack was incredibly responsive and helpful, even before and after my appointment, and really resolved IT issues in my home office that had been plaguing me for years. I am so relieved to not have to think about this anymore!… Read more “Excellent Experience”
Simply The Best! Our company has been working with Advantage Computer Solutions for a few years, Zack and his Team are AWESOME! They are super reliable – whether it’s everyday maintenance or emergencies that may arise, The Advantage Team take care of us! Our team is grateful for their knowledgeable and professional services – a… Read more “Simply The Best!”
The engineering team at Advantage Computers is the best in the business. They are nothing short of technical wizards.
Al, Nasser and Zack have been keeping our operations going for over a decade, taking care of our regular upgrades and our emergency system problems. When we have an emergency, they make it their emergency. Its like having a cousin in the business.
In many cases, exceptional people do not receive recognition for their hard work and superior customer service. We do not want this to be one of those times. Zack Rahhal has been our hardware and technical consultant for our servers, Pc’s and other technical equipment since April 2004 and has provided valuable input and courteous service to… Read more “Exceptional People”
I became a customer about 6-7 months and I can say nothing but great things about this business. Zack takes care of me. I am an attorney and operate my own small firm. I have limited knowledge of computers. Zack is very patient in explaining things. He has offered practical and economical solutions to multiple… Read more “Highly Recommended”
THANK GOD for this local computer repair business who saved me hundreds, my hard drive was messed up, i called the company with warranty they said it would be $600, I went in they did a quick diagnostic, and based on his observations he gave me a step by step of the possible problems and… Read more “Life Savers”
I don’t have enough words to express my appreciation for Nassar and Paul, and the other members of Advantage Computer Solutions. I live in Bergen County and travel to Passaic County because of the trust I have in the competence and honesty of Advantage Computers. What a blessing to have such seasoned and caring professionals… Read more “I don’t have enough words to express my appreciation”
Advantage Computer Solutions is absolutely great. They show up, do what they say they are going to, complete the job without issues (my other computer companies had to keep coming back to fix things they “forgot” to do….) and are fairly priced. Zack is awesome, reliable, dependable, knowledgeable….everything you want in a computer solutions vendor.
Knowledgeable, Reliable, Reasonable Working with Advantage Computers since 1997 for both personal and business tech support has been a rewarding and enjoyable experience. Rewarding, in that the staff is very knowledgeable, approaching needs and issues in a very straightforward, common sense manner, resulting in timely solutions and resolutions. Enjoyable, these guys are really friendly (not… Read more “Knowledgeable, Reliable, Reasonable”
Excellent service! I am the administrator for a busy medical office which relies heavily on our computer system. We have used Advantage Computer Solutions for installation, set-up and for service. The response time is immediate and the staff is often able to provide help remotely. Very affordable and honest…. A++!!! Essex Surgical relies on Advantage… Read more “Excellent service!”
Advantage offers great advice and service I bought parts for my gaming pc online and they put it together in a day for a great price. They are very professional. I was very satisfied with their service. I am a newbie in terms of PC gaming so they gave me great advice on this new piece… Read more “Great Advice and Service”
Our company has been using the services of Advantage Computers since 2006. It was important to find a reliable company to provide us with the technical support both onsite and offsite. It was through a recommendation that we contacted Advantage to have them provide us with a quote to install a new server and update our… Read more “Great Service, Support and Sales”
Our company has been working with Advantage since the 1990’s and have been a loyal client ever since. Advantage does not make it very difficult to be loyal as they offer services from the most intricate and personalized to the global scale. Our company has grown beyond its doors of a local office to National… Read more “Extremely Professional and Passionate”
Advantage Computer Solutions has handled all of our computer and IT needs for the past 2 years. The staff is always professional and the service is always prompt. When your computers are down or not working properly is affects all aspects of your business, it is wonderful to have such a reliable team on our… Read more “Handles all our Office IT”
Since 1996 the Housing Authority of the City of Passaic has been a client of Advantage Computer Solutions. Our Agency has utilized their outstanding services and expertise to solve our technologic problems and growth over the past eighteen years. We would like to personally thank them for proposing cost effective solutions while reducing labor-intense tasks… Read more “Passaic Housing Authority”
“When the computer I use to run my photography business started acting erratically and kept shutting down, I was in a panic. I depend on that computer to deliver final products to my clients. Fortunately, I brought my HP into Advantage for repair and in one day I had my computer back. Not only did… Read more “They made sure EVERYTHING was working”
Announcing updates to our Patch Rewards program in 2020
Posted by Jan Keller, Technical Program Manager, Security
At Google, we strive to make the internet safer and that includes recognizing and rewarding security improvements that are vital to the health of the entire web. In 2020, we are building on this commitment by launching a new iteration of our Patch Rewards program for third-party open source projects.
Over the last six years, we have rewarded open source projects for security improvements after they have been implemented. While this has led to overall improved security, we want to take this one step further.
Introducing upfront financial help
Starting on January 1, 2020, we’re not only going to reward proactive security improvements after the work is completed, but we will also complement the program with upfront financial support to provide an additional resource for open source developers to prioritize security work. For example, if you are a small open source project and you want to improve security, but don’t have the necessary resources, this new reward can help you acquire additional development capacity.
Nomination process
Anyone can nominate an open source project for support by filling out http://goo.gle/patchz-nomination. Our Patch Reward Panel will review submissions on a monthly basis and select a number of projects that meet the program criteria. The panel will let submitors know if a project has been chosen and will start working with the project maintainers directly.
Projects in scope
What do we expect in return?
We expect to see security improvements to open source software. Ideally, the project can provide us
with a short blurb or pointers to some of the completed work that was possible because of our support. We don’t want to add bureaucracy, but would like to measure the success of the program.
What about the existing Patch Rewards program?
This is an addition to the existing program, the current Patch Rewards program will continue as it stands today.
Protecting programmatic access to user data with Binary Authorization for Borg
Posted by Daniel Rebolledo Samper and Mark Lodato, Software Engineers, Security & Privacy
At Google, the safety of user data is our paramount concern and we strive to protect it comprehensively. That includes protection from insider risk, which is the possible risk that employees could use their organizational knowledge or access to perform malicious acts. Insider risk also covers the scenario where an attacker has compromised the credentials of someone at Google to facilitate their attack. There are times when it’s necessary for our services and personnel to access user data as part of fulfilling our contractual obligations to you: as part of their role, such as user support; and programmatically, as part of a service. Today, we’re releasing a whitepaper, “Binary Authorization for Borg: how Google verifies code provenance and implements code identity,” that explains one of the mechanisms we use to protect user data from insider risks on Google’s cluster management system Borg.
BAB ensures that Google’s official software supply chain process is followed. First, a code change is reviewed and approved before being checked into Google’s central source code repository. Next, the code is verifiably built and packaged using Google’s central build system. This is done by creating the build in a secure sandbox and recording the package’s origin in metadata for verification purposes. Finally, the job is deployed to Borg, with a job-specific identity. BAB rejects any package that lacks proper metadata, that did not follow the proper supply chain process, or that otherwise does not match the identity’s predefined policy.
After deployment, a job is continuously verified for its lifetime, to check that jobs that were started (and any that may still be running) conform to updates to their policies.
Binary Authorization for Borg provides other security benefits
Though the primary purpose of BAB is to limit the ability of a potentially malicious insider to run an unauthorized job that could access user data, BAB has other security benefits. BAB provides robust code identity for jobs in Google’s infrastructure, tying a job’s identity to specific code, and ensuring that only the specified code can be used to exercise the job identity’s privileges. This allows for a transition from a job identity—trusting an identity and any of its privileged human users transitively—to a code identity—trusting a specific piece of reviewed code to have specific semantics and which cannot be modified without an approval process.
BAB also dictates a common language for data protection, so that multiple teams can understand and meet the same requirements. Certain processes, such as those for financial reporting, need to meet certain change management requirements for compliance purposes. Using BAB, these checks can be automated, saving time and increasing the scope of coverage.
BAB is one of several technologies used at Google to mitigate insider risk, and one piece of how we secure containers and microservices in production. By using containerized systems and verifying their BAB requirements prior to deployment, our systems are easier to debug, more reliable, and have a clearer change management process. More details on how Google has adopted a cloud-native security model are available in another whitepaper we are releasing today, “BeyondProd: A new approach to cloud-native security.”
Additional contributors to this whitepaper include Kevin Chen, Software Engineer; Tim Dierks, Engineering Director; Maya Kaczorowski, Product Manager; Gary O’Connor, Technical Writing; Umesh Shankar, Principal Engineer; Adam Stubblefield, Distinguished Engineer; and Wilfried Teiken, Software Engineer; with special recognition to the entire Binary Authorization for Borg team for their ideation, engineering, and leadership
It’s time to disconnect RDP from the internet
Brute-force attacks and BlueKeep exploits usurp convenience of direct RDP connections; ESET releases a tool to test your Windows machines for vulnerable versions
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The worst passwords of 2019: Did yours make the list?
These passwords may win the popularity contest but lose flat out in security
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Week in security with Tony Anscombe
ESET’s Cybersecurity Trends 2020 report is out – New Chrome feature boosts account security – Hundreds of thousands of birth certificate applications leaked online
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2FA: Double down on your security
The second authentication factor might be a minor inconvenience, but it provides a major security boost
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Chrome now warns you if your password has been stolen
The browser’s latest version also aims to up the ante in phishing protection
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Better password protections in Chrome – How it works
Posted by Patrick Nepper, Kiran C. Nair, Vasilii Sukhanov and Varun Khaneja, Chrome Team
Today, we announced better password protections in Chrome, gradually rolling out with release M79. Here are the details of how they work.
Warnings about compromised passwords
Google first introduced password breach warnings as a Password Checkup extension early this year. It compares passwords and usernames against over 4 billion credentials that Google knows to have been compromised. You can read more about it here. In October, Google built the Password Checkup feature into the Google Account, making it available from passwords.google.com.
Chrome’s integration is a natural next step to ensure we protect even more users as they browse the web. Here is how it works:
You can control this feature in the “Sync and Google Services” section of Chrome Settings. Enterprise admins can control this feature using the PasswordLeakDetectionEnabled policy setting.
Real-time phishing protection: Checking with Safe Browsing’s blocklist in real time.
Chrome’s new real-time phishing protection is also expanding existing technology — in this case it’s Google’s well-established Safe Browsing.
Every day, Safe Browsing discovers thousands of new unsafe sites and adds them to the blocklists shared with the web industry. Chrome checks the URL of each site you visit or file you download against this local list, which is updated approximately every 30 minutes. If you navigate to a URL that appears on the list, Chrome checks a partial URL fingerprint (the first 32 bits of a SHA-256 hash of the URL) with Google for verification that the URL is indeed dangerous. Google cannot determine the actual URL from this information.
However, we’re noticing that some phishing sites slip through our 30-minute refresh window, either by switching domains very quickly or by hiding from Google’s crawlers.
That’s where real-time phishing protections come in. These new protections can inspect the URLs of pages visited with Safe Browsing’s servers in real time. When you visit a website, Chrome checks it against a list stored on your computer of thousands of popular websites that are known to be safe. If the website is not on the safe-list, Chrome checks the URL with Google (after dropping any username or password embedded in the URL) to find out if you’re visiting a dangerous site. Our analysis has shown that this results in a 30% increase in protections by warning users on malicious sites that are brand new.
We will be initially rolling out this feature for people who have already opted-in to “Make searches and browsing better” setting in Chrome. Enterprises administrators can manage this setting via the UrlKeyedAnonymizedDataCollectionEnabled policy settings.
Expanding predictive phishing protection
Your password is the key to your online identity and data. If this key falls into the hands of attackers, they can easily impersonate you and get access to your data. We launched predictive phishing protections to warn users who are syncing history in Chrome when they enter their Google Account password into suspected phishing sites that try to steal their credentials.
With this latest release, we’re expanding this protection to everyone signed in to Chrome, even if you have not enabled Sync. In addition, this feature will now work for all the passwords you have stored in Chrome’s password manager.
If you type one of your protected passwords (this could be a password you stored in Chrome’s password manager, or the Google Account password you used to sign in to Chrome) into an unusual site, Chrome classifies this as a potentially dangerous event.
In such a scenario, Chrome checks the site against a list on your computer of thousands of popular websites that are known to be safe. If the website is not on the safe-list, Chrome checks the URL with Google (after dropping any username or password embedded in the URL). If this check determines that the site is indeed suspicious or malicious, Chrome will immediately show you a warning and encourage you to change your compromised password. If it was your Google Account password that was phished, Chrome also offers to notify Google so we can add additional protections to ensure your account isn’t compromised.
By watching for password reuse, Chrome can give heightened security in critical moments while minimizing the data it shares with Google. We think predictive phishing protection will protect hundreds of millions more people.
Data leak exposes 750,000 birth certificate applications
A variety of sensitive information has been there for the taking due to an unsecured cloud storage container
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Cybersecurity Trends 2020: Technology is getting smarter – are we?
With 2019 ending, ESET experts offer their insights into how new innovations will impact our privacy, security and lives in the not so distant future
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