Looking For Opportunities Now: Is Your Tech Serving You? Looking For Opportunities In Unprecedented Times: Is Your Tech Serving You? As a businessman, I am neither “glass is half-full” nor “glass is half-empty.” I am in the camp of “the glass is still solid and it can be refilled.” My vessel is sound, so I’m […]
Hackers Are Exploiting Bored People
Hackers Are Exploiting Bored People Hackers Exploit Social Media Surveys to Steal Personal Security Information Hackers are exploiting bored people with random surveys on social media. What is actually happening is that personal identification information is being stolen by identity theft criminals. Here are some of the questions being asked. These answers are commonly used […]
Hackers Gonna Hack—Use Password Apps And 2FA
Hackers Gonna Hack—Use Password Apps And 2FA What could possibly go wrong? You’ve already seen the warnings about the barrage of new phishing scams, internet frauds, etc. I’m sure you knew they would come at this time of international crisis. Hackers gonna hack now especially because they know that more people are working online all […]
Which One Are You? We Are Available To Help
Which One Are You? We Are Available To Help Everything that is happening today reminds me of war movies I saw as a kid. When the big scene hits, everything is happening at once. Bombs going off. Machine gun fire. Men yelling. The drone of warplanes getting ever closer. This sets up the opportunity for […]
CLEAN YOUR CELL PHONE (But Be Careful)
CLEAN YOUR CELL PHONE (But Be Careful) I’ll bet there is not one parent of a teenager who has not at least once looked down at their child’s phone and thought “Wow. That’s gross!” But honestly, if you think about it, if you didn’t teach that teenager how to clean a cell phone, why would they even […]
The Comfort Of The March Business Rut
The Comfort Of The March Business Rut By this time in early March, all the “I-told-you-so” articles of lapsed gym memberships and forgotten New Year resolutions are already over. We enter every year with fresh hope that those aspects of our daily lives that are not our favorites can and will be changed this year. I like […]
RISK: Pain and Glory For Small Business Owners
RISK: Pain and Glory For Small Business Owners Being your own boss. Owning your own business. Such initiative is part of the American Dream, but you must be daring and be able to take risks. And risk is both pain and glory for small business owners. The reality is that business ownership is not necessarily […]
Cost vs. Time Lost: Tech Tools And Work Productivity
Cost vs. Time Lost: Tech Tools And Work Productivity We all recognize a “crash”. Your computers don’t come on at all, or your network suddenly stops working. You’re down. You can’t work. What will be the cost of this loss of productivity? A worse situation, I believe, is a technology slowdown. An almost imperceptible slow […]
Your Cybersecurity Risk In A New Perspective
Your Cybersecurity Risk In A New Perspective How, as a layperson, can you assess your cybersecurity risk so you know how to budget for IT protection? I am often challenged to put this into perspective. This time, I’ll start with recent news ripped from the headlines. Jeff Bezos’ net worth in real-time today is $117 […]
Face To Face Phishing: It’s Happening—Be Aware
Face To Face Phishing: It’s Happening—Be Aware The scenario happens this way. You answer the door and a guy (or a woman) is standing at your door, holding a laptop. They tell you that they have lost their cell phone, but that it has been traced to inside your residence. They ask if they can […]