Startups and small or medium-sized businesses often find that they cannot afford to create and staff an in-house IT department. Yet, with increasing reliance on all types of IT functions from running an entire enterprise network to applying…
How to Turn Window Shoppers Into Buyers With Your Unique Selling Proposition When you first started your business, you likely thought about what made you different from your competition, and how your service or product would solve your…
How You’re Screwing Up Data Security in the Cloud Many people, particularly businesses owners, don’t seem to realize that “cloud security” and “cloud data security” are two completely different things and should always be treated as such. Just…
There was a time, years ago, when you could discover how people found out about your website directly from Google. The search engine would offer website operators the ability to see what keywords were used to access their…
A piece of malware targeting Mac computers named Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor is making the rounds. While it may still come as news to some users that Macs can get infected, Mac OS X — Apple’s flagship operating system — is…
Satana Demands Payout and Warns Against Recovery Attempts With ransomware attacks making headlines nearly every day in 2016, it seems that IT security professionals and the cybercriminals that try to outsmart them are in a constant battle for…
If you plan on updating or fully redesigning a website, be sure to set goals and carefully assess your users’ needs. These questions can help you complete a highly successful project: 1. What already works well? When they…
The ecosystem of Apple’s Mac OS has long been heralded as a safe haven from the world of digital threats, and while its users were never immune to common phishing scams, they were largely in the clear from…
There’s no question that employees in today’s workforce are more technically literate than the generations before them. They use technology regularly to do their banking, get the news, network with colleagues, search for information, and stay connected to…
The Project Zero team at Google looks for defects in various software products. A researcher named Tavis Ormandy takes part in this effort. He recently identified serious security weaknesses in an assortment of Symantec and Norton utilities. The…
David Ferris
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