Municipalities and Small Businesses Take Notice: Cybercriminals are After You
Two municipalities were hit by ransomware last month and forced to pay approximately $600,000 each to regain access to city email and computer systems. One city, Riviera Beach, Florida, has roughly the same size population as the Kirkwood-Des Peres area where our...
Joe’s Musings: Dattocon, FBI’s Most Wanted Hacker, ex-CEO of billion dollar company, a party on the U.S.S. Midway, and Snoop Dogg
A personal experience: Like most industries, the IT world has its fair share of conventions. Most of them are the same; pretty boring, full of your typical IT geeks and the vendors catering to them. Think of Comic Con, but with computers instead of comic books. Last...
A Flooding Natural Disaster Guide
Damage due to flooding in the US amounts to an average of almost $8 billion annually. Undoubtedly, small businesses like yours are part of that devastation. But, even if your building is completely under water, your business data and operations don’t have to be. Learn...
Is Your Website Backed Up or Are You the Weakest of the Pack?
In my business, we harp on having good backups for our clients data. We take that a step further, however, and also insist on a recovery plan. A website is no different. Any system connected to the internet is at risk of being hacked. The bad guys don’t have to...
Office 365 & Ransomware: The Lurking Threat
For small to midsized businesses Microsoft Windows based systems remain dominant. Windows continues to be the operating system most widely used on desktops and laptops. And Microsoft Office remains the most widely used work office suite. So it’s no surprise that...
How to test your backups and yes, you should
Regularly backing up your business's files and computer systems is crucial. It is just as important to test those backups at least once a year. Why? Because you don't want to find that your backup images or files are corrupt, and thus useless, when you are trying to...
Ransomware Statistics Small Businesses Need to Know
Ransomware has had a BIG year. So big that 90% of IT providers reported ransomware attacks on small businesses in the past year. Attacks on various industries are becoming daily occurrences. We hear of companies paying huge sums to retrieve their data from the...
7 Ways to Secure Your Smartphone
Smartphones are so small and portable that it is easy to forget that you have a powerful computer in your pocket or purse. However, they are increasingly becoming the target of theft, ransomware, viruses, and other types of malware. As a result, you need to take steps...
Flooding: A Natural Disaster Survival Guide
Every business has to prepare for the worst. Those that don’t may never fully recover from a disaster. But not all disasters are created equal. And not all businesses are at risk for every kind of disaster. That’s why we’ve put together this quick Disaster Survival...
The computer virus that can hold your business hostage.
Ran*som*ware (Noun): A type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid. Is your business susceptible to a ransomware attack? If you’re using computers, the answer is yes. Get the facts straight! Check out this...