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With the many warning signs and cautionary tales out there coming fast in the form of cyberattacks that highlight the need for businesses to attain a greater level of security, a surprising number of SMB enterprises are still opting-out of…

There are two main issues involved in safely disposing of old computers (one could say “recycling” is a better word than disposal). One deals with completely erasing hard drives of any protected, classified, or restricted-access data, and the other has…

How to Discern Between Crackers and Hackers While the pejorative term “hacker” has become largely synonymous with one who has malicious motivations, the more appropriate appellation is “cracker”. The difference lies in the fact that hackers (a.k.a. white hat hackers)…

Many Small to Midsize businesses are having to re-think their disaster recovery and business continuity strategies due to the recent spike in ransomware attacks in recent years, but also because of malware infection in general and how it operates. Many enterprise…

By now, you’ve probably heard the horror stories about data breaches. A recent report stated that, on average, a company will lose $7.01 Million due to technology replacements, customer turnaround, labor to remedy the problem, and loss of productivity while…

According to a recent Cybersecurity Ventures report sponsored by Herjavec Group, projections have it that cybersecurity defense costs will exceed six trillion dollars by 2021. This will be double the cybercrime expenditures paid out in 2015. This is a staggering…

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 subsequent data theft involving half a billion Yahoo accounts…

A 2014 Yahoo hack potentially represents by far the biggest data theft on record, with information involving up to 500 million accounts stolen. Yahoo is blaming “state-sponsored” hackers, but it appears that that remark may be diversionary, as evidence of…

Anyone with any kind of business that wants to improve their IT productivity and performance quotient should look into server monitoring. The main reason to monitor server performance is for troubleshooting problems. With proper server monitoring tools in place, you…