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Stay Secure by Keeping Up to Date

Oracle Enterprises — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:02:28 +0000

Updating software is quite consequential to the security of your systems. The risks are particularly apparent in systems exposed to the Internet, such as Content Management Systems (CMSes) like Joomla and Web Server software like Apache & PHP. Pieces of add-on programs called ‘extensions’ or ‘plugins’ are particularly susceptible to attack (They should be avoided unless absolutely necessary). If there are insecure versions of software running on your Internet-connected system (such your website), automated programs made by malicious visitors can break into your website using known vulnerabilities and access, alter or destroy your data. If you store client data or other sensitive information on your website, it is your duty to make sure that this doesn’t happen.

Even if you don’t have any sensitive data on your website, attackers could change your files so as to include hidden spam links to pornographic sites or sites selling cheap/fake medicines. Even worse, they can have malware automatically downloaded and installed on to visitors’ computers. This will affect your site’s reputation, and may cause it to end up in blacklists.

If you are interested in improving the security of your websites, call our support team.

Fighting Spam

Oracle Enterprises — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:55:29 +0000

People sending unsolicited email (“spam”) have quite a few tricks up their sleeves to bypass the in-built spam protection of email clients such as Outlook or Outlook Express.

If you are receiving a lot of spam in your inbox, we may be able to help you. If you are a customer, call our support team.

Protect your data with Strong Passwords

Oracle Enterprises — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:28:29 +0000

Using strong passwords for online accounts is paramount to their security. Short, easy-to-remember passwords can be easily cracked using simple techniques, and may compromise the security of your website or client data.

A strong password will consist of both upper-case and lower-case letters, numbers and symbols. It used to be safe to have 6 or 8 character passwords. But the increasing availability of high-performance computers has meant that these short passwords can be cracked within a few seconds! These days, passwords should be at least 15 characters long to be considered secure. If the website or service allows long passwords, you could consider using pass-phrases instead of pass-words. Online password generators are available can give you completely random passwords of any level of complexity.

If you are very concerned, you could use this tool by Microsoft to evaluate the strength of your password.

Another thing to remember is that you should never use the same password for accounts with more than one provider. If you use the same password for your online banking account and for some random website you signed-up to, you are basically giving the creators of that site access to all your money. Never use the same password for your email, your computer, your banking accounts or your work accounts. It compromises the security of all accounts which share the same password. If you find it hard to remember a long list of strong passwords (most people do!), you could consider using a password manager.

MD3 issue with XP SP3

Oracle Enterprises — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:12:55 +0000

Service Pack 3 for Windows XP was made available for users to download via Windows Update. It has however been brought to our attention that there are some incompatibilities with Medical Director 3 and this latest service pack for Windows XP.

The issue causes an error whilst importing investigation results into Medical Director. The issue, has been investigated and traced to a particular hotfix included in Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. Please note this issue can also be seen on systems running XP SP2 if the particular hotfix has been applied. If you are experiencing this issue please let us know so that we may rectify the issue for you.

As is the case with all new operating systems service packs and major patches we recommend that you do not install the package until your Clinical/Practice Management software vendors have cleared it for use with their software.

I can’t open this new Word document!

Oracle Enterprises — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:30:17 +0000

Microsoft released Office 2007, their popular office suite, quite some time ago now. This version of Office is distinctly different from earlier versions in appearance due to the new ‘ribbon’ interface. Office 2007 also introduced new default file formats, with an added ‘x’ in the file extension (such as .docx, .xlsx and .pptx). If you have Office 2007 or the later versions, this isn’t a problem – you will be able to read, edit and save these and all previous office file formats. However, if you are running an older version of the Microsoft Office suite and you recieve a document saved in the new file format, you will not be able to open them by default.

To solve this issue, Microsoft has released a patch for users of Office 2003 & older versions of Office that will allow opening & editing of the new file formats. If you are a customer, do call our support team. We can make the necessary changes to make sure you can open all word documents without doing anything special.

Tired of changing your email address?

Oracle Enterprises — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:05:28 +0000

Have you just moved or changed your internet provider?

Would you like a more professional sounding email address like: yourname@yourbusiness.com.au ?