Webinars Take the Excuses Out of Missing Meetings
For today’s businesses, displaying your organizational authority is crucial to success. Whether it’s McDonald’s with fast food burgers, Chevrolet with cars and trucks, or Walmart for everything else, the message you put out there is seemingly as important as the services you provide. For small businesses, this becomes even more crucial. For example, if you […]
Tip of the Week: What You Should Do After You’ve Cracked Your Phone’s Screen
A cracked screen can happen to anyone at any time. All it takes is bumping into someone or your grip slipping off of your device, and boom–cracked screen. In cases, such as this, what’s the best way to move forward? The first step is accepting that you may have made a mistake and dropped the […]
Study Finds Social Media Phishing Scams to Be the Most Dangerous
Ordinary fishing, where you hope for a simple-minded fish to latch onto your hook, relies on using a proper lure. The same can be said for the virtual method of phishing, where a hacker will use a similar type of “lure” to convince the target to bite. These phishing scams are especially useful for hackers […]
Looking for Outside-the-Box Ideas? Give Your Intrapreneurs a Voice
Entrepreneurs are the heroes of today, making great strides in the business world by introducing new ideas to their industries. However, the intrapreneur is a bit more of an enigma; they create commendable ideas within their own organization. In fact, your organization probably has its own intrapreneurs. How do you take advantage of their skills […]
Tip of the Week: 3 Ways the Cloud Streamlines Operations for SMBs
The cloud is a great asset that your business can use to your business’ operational efficiency, but only if you’ve put plenty of thought into the implementation process. Since the same cloud solution likely won’t work in the same way for two different organizations, you’ll need to intimately know what your business needs so that […]
What’s Behind so Many Businesses Switching Their Phone Systems to VoIP?
The office telephone has been a staple in the business environment for generations, but the extent that each organization uses their telephone will vary. Factors like the number of users, telephone handsets, and wiring required will influence how much use you get from your telephone solution. However, these questions don’t have to be as difficult […]
Don’t Worry, Your Samsung Phone “Winking” at You is Just a Cool Feature
If you’re a Samsung smartphone user, have you ever seen a little eyeball symbol appear at the top of the screen? You might notice that it will show up for a minute, and then disappear again. Since this kind of activity usually makes users question what’s going on with their device, let’s get down to […]
Tip of the Week: Resolve a Poor Internet Connection By Following These 3 Steps
When the Internet goes down in the modern office, chaos ensues. The only way to subdue the panicked masses is to provide answers and to resolve the issue, ASAP. If you happen to find yourself in such an Internet-less predicament, then be sure to follow these three troubleshooting tips. Is Everything Plugged In?This may seem […]
Banks Enact New Security Solutions to Safeguard ATMs
All across the United States, banks are rolling out ATM improvements to help boost the security of their members by utilizing mobile devices. While these measures will undoubtedly help, they aren’t enough to fix all of the vulnerabilities that ATMs suffer from without some vigilance on the user’s part. What is Being DoneWells Fargo launched […]
What Your Software Has in Common With the Food in Your Fridge? An (EOL) End of Life Date
It’s a well-known fact that nothing in this world lasts forever (other than Twinkies), and this pertains to your technology more than perhaps anything else. The same solutions that you’ve been working with for years will also need regular updates and improvements in order to stay relevant to your organization. When you think about it, […]
Tip of the Week: 9 Hacker Profiles You Need to Be Aware Of
“Hacker” is a word that can bring up many powerful impressions in people. It may very well bring up images of a pale super genius hunched over a keyboard, awash in dim blue light, as it does for many people. However, this extremely specific image does little but pigeonhole the many hackers in the real […]
Alert: LastPass Vulnerability Found. Is Any Password Manager Safe?
Thanks to one of Google’s researchers with the Zero Day Project, it has been discovered that LastPass has a major vulnerability as a result of a major architectural problem. This news comes on the heels of many other flaws the same researcher discovered within LastPass. However, based on what the researcher claims, these vulnerabilities were […]
Your Business Should Be in the Headlines for the Right Reasons, Not for a Cyber Attack
Today’s headlines are peppered with stories of major companies and institutions falling victim to a cyberattack. As a business owner, what’s your response to these gut-wrenching stories? If you write them off as fear mongering and believe that these attacks can never happen to your SMB, well, you’re wrong. They can and it’s up to […]
Tip of the Week: Ways to Be Active and Proactive With Your Network Security
Security troubles have many causes, but the only way to protect your business from any of them is to implement a comprehensive enterprise-level security solution. There are two other ways that you can work to protect your business, implementing software patches, and avoiding social engineering attempts. Applying Software PatchesIt should be clear that software patches […]
Alert: 33.7 Millions Records Released to Public Due to Leak of Massive Marketing Database
In recent news, millions of records containing personal information were made available to the public in a sizable data leak, providing potential scammers with plenty of information to utilize in their schemes. These records were all part of a 53 GB database that was available for purchase from Dun & Bradstreet, a business service firm. […]
Do the Right Thing This World Backup Day and Back it Up Right
In today’s business world, having a reliable way to access your data is key to your company’s success. Everything you do depends on the data you have at your disposal–so what would you do if that data was no longer available to you? This is a far too common circumstance that creates problems for many […]
Tip of the Week: Looking to Save Money? Try These 4 Proven Business Tactics
Unless you have the good fortune to be running a large, well-funded business, you’ll always want to find ways to cut out unnecessary costs and improve the way your organization functions. When you’re cracking down on your budget, you might notice that even making a small change to your spending could yield quite a large […]
Step Aside Sherlock, Supercomputer Watson is Investigating Cybercrime
When it comes to solving crime few are as well renowned as Sherlock Holmes. However, now Watson is stepping forward to strike back against cyber criminals–but not Dr. Watson, Holmes’ faithful companion. Instead, we’re referring to Watson, IBM’s renowned supercomputer. After a year of being “trained” to spot cybercrime, Watson is now keeping an eye out […]
Productivity Suffers Without a Cohesive IT Plan
There are right ways and wrong ways to do many things, and managing IT is no exception. Many businesses, especially small ones, are left susceptible to issues and vulnerabilities in their network. What’s worse, these are often networks that are supported by an IT “expert.” Whether it’s due to budget constraints, a lack of workable […]
Tip of the Week: You May Want to Remove Your Wi-Fi Information From the WiGLE Database
The next time you look at your device’s available Wi-Fi connections when in public, take a look at what some of the local connection names are. Chances are that you’ll see some names that match a nearby organization or family. Others might still be using the default SSID, like Linksys/Netgear-something-or-other. Others might get a little […]
