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If you got an email like this, you would think it is from Amazon. Only on a closer look will you see the mistakes.   The name of the email sender is Amazon Com, and the actual address is a Gmail address.  Your Orders and Your Account are not links, they are just words.  The […]

With today’s economy, and not everyone getting the PPP loan, you might be thinking about the future of your business. If you use a 3rd party IT firm to support your needs, a common thought is to relax a bit on support; only use them when there’s a serious issue. Do you really need IT?

Old-timers once warned that updating before the next service pack would be released (often a year later) is folly. Why? Because more often than not, updates would break something and interrupt business operations… and because the risks of running older software were minimal. Times Change. Today we live in an era in which zero-day exploits

When we accidentally delete something, it feels like the end of the world. If a client file or new presentation is deleted, you may have to start again. Oh no! Yet deleting files is not as permanent as you may think. When it comes to destroying data properly, you’ll want to take a more thorough

In our digital economy, we send and receive information quickly online. The Internet offers immediate communication with colleagues, clients, vendors, and other strategic partners. Yet we shouldn’t prioritize convenience over data security. What data do you send in a day’s worth of emails? Sensitive data you send might include: personally identifiable information (PII) credit card

Many Apple owners believe their Macintosh computers are immune to viruses. Apple itself has run ad campaigns promising its computers “don’t get viruses”. And those who have owned a Mac for years, decades even, are particularly prone to believing. After all, nothing’s happened to them yet. Regrettably, Macs do get viruses, and the threat is

In May, the existence of a new worm was finally disclosed. This worm, called VPNFilter, was uncommon in three ways. It infected routers rather than computers It was developed to include multiple stages, the first of which does nothing nefarious except existing and downloading the more powerful second stage that contains the actual malware. It

There’s an Internet saying: “If you’re not the customer, you’re the product.” The point is that, if you’re getting a service for free, the company providing it sees you not as a customer, but as a product to sell, generally to advertisers. This is how Google, Facebook, and Twitter operate. They provide services for free,

Data breaches have become commonplace, with online thieves constantly breaking into corporate and government servers and making off with millions—or even hundreds of millions!—of email addresses, often along with other personal information like names, physical address, and passwords. It would be nice to think that all companies properly encrypt their password databases, but the sad

When a Mac folder contains a lot of files, the Finder’s List view often works best, since it lets you focus on a single folder and easily sort the contents by clicking the different columns: Name, Date Modified, Size, and Kind. But did you know that you can resize columns, rearrange them, and even add