Small businesses increasingly face the same cybersecurity risks as larger businesses but with fewer resources to protect themselves. In fact, according to the 2018 State of Cybersecurity in Small & Medium Size Businesses study by the Ponemon Institute: 67% of small and medium-sized businesses have been...
There’s recently been a lot of media attention around two vulnerabilities in computer chips. The vulnerabilities, given the ominous titles "Meltdown" and "Spectre," exist in nearly all microprocessors made since 1995 — meaning they are found in nearly every popular business computer, home computer, and...
When we hear the word “disaster,” our minds immediately shift to major natural events such as earthquakes, flooding, hurricanes, etc. We rarely think about the smaller disasters that could cripple a small business - extended power outages, a blizzard that affects employees’ ability to get...
In last month’s blog post, we covered the end of mainstream support for Windows 7 and the very interesting news surrounding Windows 10 - in particular that the update to Windows 10 will be free for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users for the first...
Microsoft has been in the news quite a bit over the past month, with stories about Windows old and new capturing the attention of consumers and businesses worldwide. The first big news story concerned support for Windows 7. On January 13, 2015, Microsoft's mainstream support for...
Since the iPad was first introduced in 2010, we’ve witnessed explosive growth in the market for the first truly new piece of personal technology since the PC: the tablet computer. The industry has even coined the term “Post-PC Era” to note the decline in sales...
We’ve written at length about the many benefits that cloud computing can bring to your business, such as lower costs, faster time-to-delivery, improved reliability, improved scalability, etc. However, with all of these benefits come risks that many businesses ignore or don’t even realize are present....
LogMeIn has been a standard-bearer for simple remote access to Windows-based PCs and Macs, from just about any device you can imagine, for many years. Users all over the world have benefited from their free remote access tools. On January 21, 2014, LogMeIn announced via...
A new and frightening escalation in the virus world is circulating the Internet. A virus called Cryptolocker has been infecting PCs through an email attachment. The virus runs and encrypts data on your PC as well as on shared drives that may reside on servers...
Back in December 2011, we wrote about Microsoft Windows 8 and the Tablet Market. At that time, Windows 8 was just around the corner, hardware manufacturers were experimenting with new types of devices, and we were unsure how it was all going to come together....