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  • Do You VPN?

    Do You VPN? If you travel for business, it is highly likely you’ve connected to the free Wi-Fi in the airport terminal, local coffee shop or even on public transit. Have you ever connected to that free Wi-Fi in your hotel room and gotten a creeping sense of dread, wondering if anyone might be able…

  • Email Phishing Attacks – Part Duex

    As we posted last March, email phishing attacks continue at record levels. Those who seek to commit fraud keep getting more innovative in their efforts. Many people have become savvy enough to recognize the common tell-tale signs. Whether it’s a tragedy or a fake IRS collection notice, we’re rarely surprised by the bait used by…

  • Office Tips & Tricks: Using Filters in Excel

    Use Excel Filters to Make Short Work of Long Columns Filters are a powerful tool in Excel that let you mask information from your view. For example, filters can be used to only show you the rows that have Widgets as the item type or only show you rows that have blank cells in a…

  • Office Tips & Tricks: Proof Listening with Word's Read Aloud Function

    Proof Listen with Word’s Read Aloud Function Sit back and let your ears do the work If you’re a business owner, you write daily. Emails, notes, documents, blog posts, social media, you name it. It’s your business, you’ve got to write it. Like many, you either stress over “its” versus “it’s,” or you don’t. You…

  • Barracuda Email Spoof

    What the Barracuda Email Spoof Means for Your Business Elaborate Scheme to Steal O365 User Credentials The email spoof remains one of the favorite tools used by cyber-criminals to phish information. A recently uncovered scheme moved the bar up in terms of sophistication. As if using known brands wasn’t enough, this latest phishing attempt spoofed…

  • Latest Facebook Data Breach

    Facebook Data Breach Exposes User Data 540 Million Facebook Users Impacted User ID’s, Friends Lists and Photos Among the Data Exposed Two separate databases that stored Facebook user profile details on unsecured Amazon AWS cloud servers were discovered this week by cybersecurity research firm Upguard. It was just last April that Facebook admitted malicious actors…