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Live Long & Prosper With Cloud Storage

How Cloud Storage Pricing is Helping Companies Prosper Many small, medium, and larger businesses have migrated their IT networks in recent years to cloud-based computing options. This is for very good reasons – businesses utilizing cloud services gain…

Google Debuts New User-Friendly Video Calling App, ‘Google Duo’

Google’s one-on-one video calling app, Google Duo, launched on Monday for both Android and iOS. The app is expected to be available worldwide in the next few days. The app boasts the ability to transition from cellular data…

Dropbox Hacked: Yet Another Argument for Better Encryption

You may have heard that 68 million Dropbox users were recently told by the company that they needed to change their passwords due to a general hack of their database. The hack occurred in 2012, but it was…

Super-Sophisticated Spyware Has Been Discovered After Undetected Five-Year Run

After spending a half-decade operating undetected, an APT (advanced persistent threat) known as “ProjectSauron” has been uncovered by both Symantec and Kaspersky Labs. A group called “Strider” has been using Remsec, an advanced tool that appears to have…

How to Identify and Protect Your Company From the Latest Hacker Schemes

There is no doubt that the internet has made doing business across the street or across the world easier. Borders and barriers don’t exist for the most part (except in certain totalitarian countries). You can reach customers around…

Not All Ransomware is Created Equal: What You MUST Know

If you’re currently unfamiliar with the concept of ransomware, consider yourself lucky – it is by far one of the most dangerous threats that Internet users and businesses all over the world face today. Ransomware viruses actually encrypt…

How To: Backing Up Hyper-V to Amazon

How to back up Hyper-V to Amazon. Public clouds have quickly become an incredibly cost effective option when it comes to backup storage. One of the more widely known public cloud services on the market is Amazon Web…

How to Do Marketing at a Low Cost

When most people hear the term “marketing,” they usually think about paid advertising. But the internet presents so many other ways to tell the product about your company and its offerings. And, marketing is much more than just…

No Opportunity to Relax on Cyber Security

Not so long ago, if your organization had a robust security suite that included a firewall and antivirus, you could feel reasonably secure. The antivirus vendors spent a lot of time and manpower keeping up with the software…

New OS X Malware: How To Protect Your Mac From Eleanor

While Apple malware isn’t unheard of, it is less often found in the wild. The illusion of perfect security entertained by many Apple users gets easily shattered when a new bug appears on the horizon. Eleanor is the…