Tips on How Businesses Can Prevent Cyber Crime
We all see the news stories about the big organizations like hospitals and government agencies suffering cyber breaches, but small and medium-sized businesses also need to be hyper-aware of the...
Ransomware Causing a Rethinking of Disaster Recovery Importance
Many companies are having to re-think their disaster recovery strategies due mainly to the recent spike in ransomware attacks, but also because of malware infection in general. With ransomware...
Do You Have a Viable Business Continuity Plan in Place?
It doesn’t matter what industry you work in – the great importance of having a viable business continuity and disaster recovery plan in place cannot be overstated. The occasional and inevitable...
Laptop Battery Charging Tips from the Pros
There’s a lot of talk these days about mobile phone batteries and charging, but laptop batteries are in a class all their own and deserve attention. Your laptop battery is one of its most important...
Yahoo Data Theft Good Reason to Regularly Change Passwords
In case you needed another reason for regularly changing your passwords, the recently-uncovered Yahoo hack of 500 million accounts is probably the reason of the decade so far. The hack and...
90% of PC Users Ignore Important Security Warnings
It seems that 9 out of 10 PC users fail to heed important security warnings, opting instead to ignore needed updates and put their PCs at potential risk of some type of cyber threat, according to a...
Best Ways to Avoid and Remove Scareware
One of the methods black hat Internet marketers and hackers have of “tricking you into clicking” on their shady ads or pop-ups is scareware. It actually first cropped-up almost ten years ago, but...
Network Monitoring & Network Efficiency
Network monitoring and its role in network efficiency. One can tell how well a network monitoring system operates by simply investigating how mature the monitoring program is. This can be discovered...
Exchange Sync App Now Available in Android with Gmail Add-On
The announcement about the Android Gmail app add-on that expands the Exchange Active Sync features came last spring, but is worth reiterating: You can download the Gmail app in Galaxy Nexus and...
Dropbox Hacked: Yet Another Argument for Better Encryption
You may have heard that 68 million Dropbox users were recently told by the company that they needed to change their passwords due to a general hack of their database. The hack occurred in 2012, but...
FTC Chief Technologist’s Mobile Phone Number and Account Hijacked
And How You Can Learn from This Mishap How is it that the Federal Trade Commission’s Chief Technology Officer – a woman by the name of Lorrie Cranor – had her mobile phone account hijacked?...
Welcome to the Age of Exponential Progress and Innovation
The world is changing faster than we can even say. Entire industries and ways of life are being outmoded, re-adapted, and re-envisioned. Look at what has happened in the world of business and...