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Hackers are employing increasingly sophisticated techniques to scam users into downloading malicious software. For instance, today’s hackers and malware authors have begun using so-called “doorway pages” – web pages optimized to rank highly in results for common search engine queries.
These pages often feature trending or hot topics to show up favorably in search results, and [...]

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Consider this:  according to research by technology analyst group Gartner, beyond 2010 end users, not the IT department, will be responsible for 50 percent of business IT procurement decisions—ultimately bringing and running their own systems on company networks. Meanwhile, according to management consultants Accenture, around one-third of today’s new generation of workers (a group they call [...]

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It’s simple: Businesses that suffer data losses usually fail as a result.
That’s according to a study by the Department for Trade and Industry, which found that 70 percent of small businesses suffering a major data loss are out of business within 18 months.
What this means is businesses have failed to protect themselves from a plethora [...]

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Money is tight and hard to come by, and a lot of companies are looking to cut costs and sacrifice the non-essentials. For many, taking off a chunk out of the IT budget is one of the ways to try to save money.
However, when it comes to IT services, chances are a bit more investment [...]

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As we begin to store more and more of our data on the Internet and in the “Cloud,” the threat of that data being accessed and used by someone or something outside of our knowledge or control becomes very real. Data such as credit card information, banking transactions, work history, private addresses and numbers, email [...]

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McAfee posted on its blog recently news about e-mail purportedly coming from Facebook urging recipients to open an attachment to get their new password on the site. Unfortunately the email is a scam to get not only users’ password of the popular social networking website, but potentially any accounts they use while using their computer [...]

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Ever wonder what it would look like if your business were destroyed by a flood?  See firsthand what the Pep Boys location in Nashville caught on their security camera in early May.

What about a tornado?  Watch this clip to see what impact a tornado can have on your business.
Both of these film clips should serve [...]

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Users beware of ransomware: malicious software that extorts money from users in exchange for freeing the user’s computer or data. One particularly nasty version was recently discovered by researchers at CA which came bundled with a software download called uFast Download Manager. The malware blocks Internet access for users until they pay the publisher a [...]

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For many people, learning begins by understanding the basic principles that drive a certain concept. Whether in technology or science or society, the world is filled with so many complex and complicated subjects that affect our lives, but remain largely misunderstood by the general public.
This is where commoncraft.com comes in. Owned and maintained by husband [...]

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You expect your computer to work when you turn it on. The last thing you want is to waste valuable time trying to get your email running or wrestling with a web browser that won’t load.
These are frustrations you surely have experienced, and chances are you will again. But you don’t have to. Or, at [...]

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Not even the rich and famous are immune from disasters so don’t think that it can’t happen to you.  Just take a look at country singing sensations Brad Paisley and Keith Urban who are two of countless musicians that will most likely lose millions of dollars on performance gear due to the historic floods in [...]

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When most people want to purchase a new computer or upgrade their current one, they focus on finding a CPU with the quickest speed, the most computing cores, or the most RAM they can afford. However, they may be overlooking the most likely reason for computing slowdowns: fragmentation in the disks.
Disk drives claim the [...]

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Do you frequently struggle with creating PDF documents, sending large files through email, and converting various file types from one to another? If so, you may have found that some mainstream solutions are complicated and time consuming. But there are some online solutions that can help you with these common tasks without requiring you to [...]

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This past Saturday night Dallas Data Center implemented 5 new Cisco switches, which added a significant amount of new ports (216 to be exact) to our networking infrastructure.  The 5 latest switches were joined into a HA mesh with 1 and 2 gigabit redundant port channels to the core.  Along with this addition, we increased [...]

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Research released by antivirus vendors MacAfee and Panda suggest that searching for certain key words on Internet search engines can prove dangerous. Hackers and malware authors have become adept at Search Engine Optimization and are using frequently searched key words to create sites that will rank favorably in search engines, but are a host for [...]

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Businesses need to use the economic crisis as a time to reassess their IT needs and options. Server virtualization, consolidation, and energy costs are a good place to start.
Read more at Inc. Technology…

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