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Scareware!
Criminals have developed a new strategy to access computers that has proven surprisingly effective. Scareware. Designed to look like legitimate ‘protection’ software, scareware delivers a false...
View ArticleBetween Ctrl and Alt
Hello up there. It’s me, that key you never use. I’ve got great placement between Ctrl and Alt, but you never press me. I may look like a crooked flag, or a foursquare court drawn by someone Irish...
View Article6 Apps I Can’t Live Without
Google Apps – Branded E-Mail, Shareable RSS Calendars, Collaborative Document Editing, Easy Web Forms, and much more. I finally gave in and just made this the page that opens with my browser, because...
View Article6 Ways To Make Your Microsoft Windows Computer Less Terrible
You know that you should probably call us and order a new system, but you’re trying to stretch every penny right now. We understand. Here are 6 ways to make your aging Windows computer less terrible....
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Encryption: cracking the code
The word “cryptography” may evoke images of Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, trying to find Russian spies lurking in the classified ads, or perhaps you think of little Ralphie Parker in A Christmas...
View Article10 Things You Will Love About Twitter
Twitter has risen to second place among social networks with monthly growth estimated at over 1,000 percent. According to Wikipedia, there are an estimated 6 million people using it on a regular...
View ArticleWhat’s the password?
How many times a day do you type a password? Whether it’s an ATM transaction, your e-mail, your Facebook account, or your laptop, the answer is probably dozens of times a day, hundreds of times a...
View ArticleHome Routers In The Workplace?
A router is an amazing device, often combining a radio transceiver, a wireless access point, a data encryption service, a router, a web server for administration, a basic firewall, a DNS server, a DHCP...
View ArticleCase Study: Big Brothers Big Sisters
Why They Are Awesome: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County is a local charter of a national nonprofit with a perfect four star rating by Charity Navigator. This means that they work extremely...
View ArticleRetail PC or Business PC? 6 Reasons To Go Enterprise.
It seems like computer manufacturers have split personalities. People are confused by this all the time. What’s really the difference between a “business” Dell Latitude Laptop and a “consumer” Dell...
View Article6 Reasons Why Business Internet Costs More Than Residential Internet
What is bandwidth? Picture a hose. If you need to move millions of gallons of water through a garden hose, it’s going to take a long time. If you have a fire hose, it will be a shorter amount of...
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2016 Security Update: Ransomware & Spearphishing
There are two unprecedented digital attacks going on right now that we wanted to let you know about. For 20 years, data endpoint security has relied on signature databases. Succinctly, security...
View ArticleHey you, get off of my cloud.
People who work in IT joke about putting fog machines in their datacenters so that they can legitimately call it “the cloud”. Here’s why that’s funny: The cloud is a marketing term. The term has no...
View ArticleIP Telephony: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the VOIP
Out of all the technologies we support and deploy, the one that people seem to have the most difficulty understanding is telephony. I’ve always loved phones. My parents took me to Disneyland when I...
View ArticleNothing happened yesterday.
Nothing happened yesterday. Of course that’s not true. A massive ransomware infection took over computers in 99 countries, including systems at the National Health Service in Great Britain. Lives were...
View ArticleHow we patched a major wifi security flaw for all of our customers in ten...
The simplest wireless deployments are composed of a single access point. Sometimes that access point is integrated into a modem or router, for very small offices or residential wireless. Often these...
View ArticleBright Bear Completes SOC 2 Type II Certification
For Immediate Release Irvine, CA: Bright Bear Technology Solutions, Inc., a provider of technology support and consulting, announced the successful completion of its first System and Organization...
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