Can Script Kiddies Threaten Your Business? Their name may not prompt anxiety, yet script kiddies are much more dangerous than they sound. These cybercriminals aren’t elite hackers, but they can still compromise your business. What is a Script Kiddie? Someone considered a script kiddie, or “skiddie,” has nominal coding skills. They can’t find the vulnerabilities…
What Happens When You Delete a File? When you delete a file, it disappears from your desktop. That can be helpful to clear up clutter and give you a sense of accomplishment, or it can cause a panic spiral as you worry that you’ve lost a week’s worth of work. Either way, it may help…
We may not have hovercraft yet, but ChatGPT offers futuristic innovation to business. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model designed to generate human-like responses. The increasingly popular AI-powered platform has a wide range of applications. Weigh its advantages against the security implications, though. ChatGPT responds to questions or commands, drawing on pre-training using large…
Part of the problem with a data breach is that your business doesn’t know about it until it’s already happened – sometimes well after. Knowing the signs of a data breach can help you mitigate the damage. Don’t get complacent about cybersecurity. There are many things competing for your attention. But cyber vulnerabilities can mean…
Hackers today have many ways to attack small businesses and business owners. Many attempt to use technology to send malware, viruses, or phishing attacks; or use information to con owners and employees into handing over more information than they should. One or more of these techniques can be combined with gaining physical access to steal…
A single click can be the difference between maintaining data security and suffering massive financial losses. From the moment just one employee takes the bait in a phishing email, your business is vulnerable to data breaches and extensive downtime. Quickly spot the red flags and put phishing emails where they belong: Poor spelling and…
Passwords are essential to your cyber-safety. You know it, but if you’re like the rest of the digital society, you probably have dozens of logins to remember. It’s a lot. So, you might take shortcuts. Taking advantage of your laissez-faire attitude is one way bad guys access your passwords. Incredibly, there are still people out…
You’re working on your computer and suddenly you get a popup alert saying your computer needs to reboot to finish installing updates. Your Google Chrome changes the color of your profile icon in the top-right to yellow or red. Another program asks if you want to update it because a new version is available when…
Email security is likely the #1 place where small businesses could spend a little more to get a lot of protection for their company. Cyber-attack statistics over the past few years show that most of them originate through email (https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/factsheets/Sophos-Phish-Threat-Datasheet.pdf). Malicious emails can contain links to sites that try to harvest login credentials, get users…
Microsoft releases Windows 11 this month, October 5, 2021 (https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/), and businesses may not want to upgrade just yet. The new version of Windows will come with some significant user experience tweaks that users may not like, certain programs could have problems with it, and Microsoft has a track record of releasing unpopular versions of…