Tom Holland

Spear Phishing – Check the senders email address

Tom Holland — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:18:22 +0000

A new breed of spammers are tapping into the vast amount of personal data available on sites like Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn to learn all about you, and then pose as your closest friends in millions of fraudulent emails. The new breed of spear-phishing emails appear to be sent by a close friend or family …

Barnes & Noble Detects Tampering with PIN Pad Devices at Stores

Tom Holland — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:40:42 +0000

Used your debit / credit card at a Barnes and Noble in these California cities: Calabasas, Corona, Chula Vista, Corte Madera, Emeryville, Escondido, Glendora, Montclair, San Luis Obispo, Oceanside, Palm Desert, Redlands, San Bruno, San Diego, San Jose, San Mateo, Santee, Temecula, Ventura, Walnut Creek? You should change your PIN number: “October 24, 2012; New York …

New websites created by theTomHolland.com

Tom Holland — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:21:59 +0000

It has been my pleasure to work with these following businesses to create and release their new sites. Rose Park wanted a WordPress site with Auction capabilities as well as a blog to communicate with their neighbors. Please visit the solution I created for them here: http://rpna.org Intertrans needed a professional web presence for their …

Rose Park Bluegrass Festival is this Sunday

Tom Holland — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:25:33 +0000

Looking forward to the Rose Park Bluegrass Festival this Sunday 12pm – 5pm. I was happy to be their web designer and look forward to seeing all the great acts. Check out the web page I built for them here: http://www.roseparkbluegrass.com

Change your LinkedIn Password – Millions of LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online

Tom Holland — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:16:18 +0000

From CNET: Millions of LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online A hacker says he’s posted 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords on the Web — hot on the heels of security researchers’ warnings about privacy issues with LinkedIn’s iOS app. LinkedIn users could be facing yet another security problem. A user in a Russian forum says that he …

WordPress Security Update Patches

Tom Holland — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:30:49 +0000

We are always looking to protect our clients and one of the ways we do it is being on top of all security updates. The WordPress development team released WordPress 3.3.2 on Friday in order to address several vulnerabilities in the popular blogging platform as well as in three external libraries that are bundled with …

Windows 8 Announces Product Versions: ONLY TWO!

Tom Holland — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:37:26 +0000

From anandtech.com: “For 32-bit and 64-bit PCs, there will be two editions of the operating system: Windows 8, which is roughly equivalent to Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 8 Pro, which is analogous to Windows 7 Ultimate.” This will be a lot less confusing than the 6 different versions with 3 different sub-editions they …

Google takes on Dropbox with 5GB Online Storage

Tom Holland — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:04:35 +0000

From Slashdot.Org: “The Next Web is reporting that Google Drive, the search giant’s long anticipated cloud storage service, is set to launch next week. From the article: ‘What’s interesting though is that Google is planning to start everyone with 5 GB of storage. Of course you can buy more, but that trumps Dropbox’s 2 GB …

Rose Park Bluegrass Festival

Tom Holland — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:04:59 +0000

I’ve finished work on creating a website for the 2012 Rose Park Bluegrass Festival. I’m pretty happy with the results. It’s a great music festival that’s having its second go-around. I am very happy to be associated with it. Please check it out: http://www.roseparkbluegrass.com/

The best video player has been updated: VLC Player 2.0 has arrived

Tom Holland — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:03:33 +0000

For years I have loved the VLC Player. It is the one video player that played EVERYTHING no matter how it was encoded. Well that EVERYTHING excluded BluRays. Now with this upgrade it seems that it will play BluRays too. My only fear is that they might be trying to be like iTunes. What I …