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How Can You Tackle Network Security on Vacation?
The snow gently falls outside as you kick back in your Snuggie, ready to conquer that Netflix backlog... You've earned it! During the months leading up to winter, you vanquished any and all network...
New Password Guidelines
New NIST Password Guidelines Recently the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released updated best practices for creating passwords. Surprisingly, NIST's recommendations fly in...
Looping a slideshow in PowerPoint
Sometimes you want to run a PowerPoint presentation on repeat – looping a slideshow so it can play in the background during an event, perhaps at a trade show booth. Is it possible to automatically...
Spam, spam, go away
Spam. In some ways, it's the electronic equivalent of junk mail and junk phone calls. Spam is not only an unsolicited and annoying nuisance, it's also a pervasive problem that's clogging and...
Can you strengthen your weakest link?
The answer may surprise you There's an adage in IT circles that people — both you and your employees — tend to be the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain. But that's not entirely true. Attacks...
Business Email Compromise Scams – Business Continuity Tip
Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams use social engineering and deception to defraud organizations and steal their employees' information and identities. These types of scams try to trick employees...
Add an email signature in Office 365 Mail
If you're using both Office 365 Mail (Outlook.com) and Outlook on desktop, you'll have noticed that saving your email signature in Outlook does not save it in Office 365 Mail. This can be...
Windows 10 Tip: Yikes, stop that sound! Mute-a-tab in Microsoft Edge
Does this sound familiar? You’ve got multiple tabs open in your browser and all of a sudden, music or voices blares from one of them. You scramble to find the audio icon on that tab, open the page...
How to avoid a Bitcoin blackmail scam
“I know about the secret you are keeping from your wife and everyone else. You can ignore this letter, or pay me a $8600 confidentiality fee in Bitcoin”. It's enough to send shivers down anyone's...
Temptations in HIPAA Compliance: Beware the ‘Easy Button’
You may recall the Staples “easy button” commercials from the early 2000s. It seems the lure of the easy button is still all around us. Whether it’s hacking our way to hyper-productivity, getting...