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Were You Targeted by Ransomware? The FBI Wants to Hear About It
At the end of January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation went public with an announcement that they had taken down the servers and Dark Web sites utilized by the Hive ransomware gang. This is a major victory, in terms of fighting cybercrime, but a certain statistic from this operation shows a somewhat disconcerting trend. Let’s examine a statistic that FBI Director Christopher Wray shared during a press conference: In the Seven Months of the FBI’s Operation, an Estimated 20% of Hive’s Victims Reported Issues to Law Enforcement [...]
RMM Services Keep Your Business’ Computing Up and Running
It isn’t easy to run a small business, and a lot of this difficulty comes from the fact that, as an owner of a small business, you have some limitations that dictate how your business can be run. For many businesses, one of these is a budgetary one. If you are going to stabilize your costs, you need to know that the investments you make are going to work. One way a managed services provider accomplishes this is through remote monitoring and maintenance. Let’s say your company [...]
Tip of the Week: Setting Up a New Router
Back in the early days of wireless Internet connectivity, setting up your router was a challenge. Fortunately, this is no longer the case, and it’s a pretty simple process. However, that is not to say that there aren’t better ways of doing things as compared to others. Let’s go over a few things that you’ll want to address as you’re setting up your wireless router. Keep It Centralized, High Up, and Unobstructed It really matters where you put your router in your office, largely because of how [...]
Properly Conducted Managed IT Services Bring Immense Value
Even the most technology-literate of your average employees is not going to have the knowledge needed to manage and maintain your entire business infrastructure, and you shouldn’t expect them to, either. It takes a special kind of attention and training to manage complicated enterprise-level technology, but how can you make sure your business has access to these important resources? Perhaps the best solution to this challenge lies in managed IT services. If you support your business with the appropriate technology expertise, even a small business like yours [...]
We Need to Talk About How Modern AI Tools Can Influence Work
In recent months, publicly-accessible AI tools have ignited interest in using artificial intelligence amongst businesses, and for good reason. While these tools are very, very limited in what they can do—which we will discuss here for sure—they still show enormous potential. However, this potential introduces a few major questions to the conversation. Let’s examine some of them. First, Let’s Address the Plagiarism of It All These modern platforms, and indeed any AI-powered tool, rely on data in order to work. In the case of the platforms that [...]
Tech Giants are Looking to Ditch the Password
Passwords, as annoying as they are sometimes, are the front line of defense to almost every account and profile your business depends on. That doesn’t stop security professionals from trying to develop better strategies to secure digital systems. Some of the biggest names in tech are searching for ways to forge ahead passwordless. Let’s take a look at one example that has drawn the attention of the tech community. The Potential End of the Password In order to replace the password there has to be an undeniably [...]
Can Technology Help You Overcome Your Direct Pain Points?
We write in a lot of general terms about technology, whether it’s how to secure your infrastructure, procure hardware, or implement software solutions for your network, and that is for one very specific reason: each business is different and has different needs. We thought today that we would take you through some of the questions you might ask when thinking about the best approach to new technology in your office. Can Technology Solve Your Problem? If a business asks us to put a plan in place for [...]
This Device Corrects Your “LOLs” If You Didn’t Actually LOL
Love them or hate them, cutesy little acronyms like this just don’t have a place in business communications. However, for some people, they’ve become so habitual that they almost can’t help but use them everywhere. In light of this lack of meaning, one artist and tinkerer has devised a way to judge whether or not the “LOL” is sincere. Let’s take a few moments to examine what this artist has created…and why, frankly, the idea is a little ingenious. Artist Brian Moore Created a Device to Eliminate [...]
