January 28, 2012

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Welcome to Managed Solutions in Danville, CA

We are an IT Services company servicing clients in the San Francisco Bay Area and Internationally. Everything on our site is accessible through the navigation menu near the top of the page, the rest of the features on the site are for added convenience. If you have questions call us any time at 925-272-0384.

Why 2011 may be the Year of Privacy

As we roll into our 14th year here at Managed Solutions taking stock of the last 14 years many trends have dominated our priority list. In 2010 the focus was extending the life of under-maintained hardware, Cloud Computing and Security. Signs are pointing to privacy being a very relevant issue for 2011. The Wall Street [...]

American Honda warns their customers of Privacy Breach

American Honda Motor Company, Inc. is warning their customers today of a privacy breach that resulted in the compromise of private information about their customers. In this instance they are advising their clients of the following client information being compromised: Email Addresses Names Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) User ID Their formal statement to their customers [...]

How to add valuable information to your Windows desktop background (Video)

It seems as though basic system information is often needed but not always easy to get. This video demonstrates how to use the BGinfo program by Sysinternals to display important information on the desktop background of your windows PC. The first couple of minutes show how to edit and use the program then a demonstration [...]

How to refresh your DNS Cache

You may have found yourself in this predicament – you or your ISP have changed some of your domain name server settings for your website, email or similar service and you cannot yet access the new resource when you try. Part of the process you can control and part you cannot. These changes when well [...]

Good Personal Choices – the most powerful Information Security Tool

Dali Burgado posted a really interesting article from infosecurity.com today about combating Twitter worm threats being personal. The gist of the article was that the best way to combat these information security threats was by reporting them. We’ll take this idea a step farther in this article, that information security really centers around making good [...]