EPC's Computer Recycling Blog
Blog URL http://blog.epcusa.com/
Located St Charles, Missouri USA
Tags computer recycling, computers, technology, recycling, data security, it security, data destruction
EPC specializes in computer recycling, data destruction and used computer sales. Our blog covers green ideas in technology, data and IT security issues, and other information related to computers and technology.
Latest Blog Posts
- 10 very annoying system defaults on Sep 2, 2009 in Computers annoyances top 10 windows
I was reading 10 seriously annoying default configurations at TechRepublic today and was inspired to come up with my own. 1. Windows Update I love the idea of Windows Update, but its implementation drives me crazy. First, every update seems to requir...
- Dealing with password fatigue on Aug 28, 2009 in Data Security computer security passwords security
How many passwords do you have? According to a study done by the NTA Monitor in 2002 the average computer user has 21 different passworded accounts. Twenty One! And that was before Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking tool. I personally...
- Links of the Week: Data Security Edition on Aug 18, 2009 in Quick Links Data Security Heartland Social Networking twitter
There were some great articles on CIO.com this week relating to Data Security. Here they are plus a selection of the best IT Data Security articles in the last week: Heartland CEO: QSAs Let Us Down In the review of what led to the Heartland credit...
- EPC Celebrates MO Sales Tax Holiday by Opening Warehouse to the Public on Aug 7, 2009 in Uncategorized August 8th back to school computer Computers desktops epc laptops Missouri peripherals printers sale Sales Tax Holiday servers Tax Free Holiday warehouse sale
In an effort to help parents with the costs of sending their students back to school, Missouri has established this weekend as a Sales Tax Holiday. To enhance this tax holiday, EPC is opening our warehouse to the public for a huge sale. No related...
- Use Electrical Outlets or Lasers to capture keystrokes? on Jul 10, 2009 in Data Security black hat hacking laptops
This has been a week of crazy hacking announcements. CIO.com reports that Andrea Barisani and Daniele Bianco, a pair of researchers for network security consultancy Inverse Path, will demonstrate two new attacks that can be used to record keystrokes...
- The School District of Philadephia to investigate its computer recycling program on Jul 10, 2009 in Computer Recycling frontline Ghana
The school district of Philadelphia is launching a probe into how one of their monitors was found in a landfile in Ghana. After the monitor was spotted in a PBS Frontline documentary and repeated inquiries were made by Technically Philly, the school...
- Hacking the Dot-Matrix Printer on Jul 7, 2009 in Data Security algorithms dot-matrix hacking
It sounds like something out of a bad spy movie, but researchers at Saarland University have published a paper on a new hack targeted at those old trustry dot-matrix printers. These researchers discovered that by recording the sounds the printers mad...
