Weekly IT Security Tip

If you do online banking, NEVER access your online account with a PC or device that you use to login to social media sites or free e-mail accounts (like Gmail) or to surf the web. Since these are all highly hackable, keeping one PC dedicated to online banking reduces your chances of getting a bank-account-hacking virus. Of […]

With so many access points, from cell phones to laptop and home computers, how can anyone hope to keep their network safe from hackers, viruses and other unintentional security breaches? The answer is not “one thing” but a series of things you have to implement and constantly be vigilant about, such as installing and constantly updating your

Want to know what every hacker hopes you believe? “We’re small…nobody wants to hack us.” This is the #1 reason why companies get hacked. They dismiss the importance of IT security because they’re only a “small business\”. This is a lazy, irresponsible excuse. One thing is for certain: NO ONE is immune to cybercrime. In fact, one in five small

YOU!… and your employees. Like it or not, human beings are our own worst enemies online, inviting hackers, viruses, data breaches, data loss, etc., through the seemingly innocent actions taken every day online. In most cases, this is done without malicious intent – but if you as a manager or owner aren’t monitoring what websites your

If you’re using any kind of cloud application (and these days, who isn’t?), you are right to be concerned about data privacy and security. The company hosting your data is ultimately responsible for keeping hackers out of THEIR network, but most cloud breaches are due to USER ERROR. So it’s important that you, the user, are being smart