Author: Paul M Tate

After a two month wait (negotiating with phone companies) I have now got my Samsung Omnia, lovely phone but so far two things wrong:

1. Screen goes blank and phone appears dead, but is still alive! Seems others have the same problem, my research obviously wasn’t good enough.
   Modaco blank-screen-of-death
   With  this fault it might have to go back as I can’t tell who is calling when it has gone off, stopping me prioritizing client work.
2. Microsoft have made the remote desktop client optional for phone vendors, guess what Samsung have missed it out as well. There are downloads so this is not a show stopper.
   Downloaded an MS version from PDAPhone that works, thanks

Organisations have to be careful of how they dispose of any IT equipment, not just their PC’s and hard disks, anything with writeable flash memory that can store settings can be a security threat.

In this ITPro article, “Second-hand VPN leads to security breach at council” Kirklees Council were caught out by their disposal policy and a Cisco VPN device was bought on EBay for £1 which when turned on it logged into the council’s servers, giving access to the network as though they had plugged in a cable inside the data centre.

Kirklees council commented that there were “multiple layers of security” needed to access data, but this is a big first step of taking those layers down.

That factory reset switch is your friend.