Nowadays, hackers can spy on and even destabilize a business with denial-of-service attacks viruses and several other kinds of malicious cyber actions. Large enterprises pour resources into ramping up their security networks to defend against the daily blitz of attacks. And while it doesn’t stop...
Last Friday Mathew Honan, a tech reporter with Wired.com, experienced a hacking incident that perfectly illustrates the vulnerabilities we expose when we rely on cloud services, linked accounts, and — especially — use of one favorite master password for multiple accounts. There's another...
As a business that might be relying on the cloud to ensure your data is backed up, you should beware the fine print and terms that define any service plan as "unlimited." It turns out that some plans will throttle (slow down your upload speed) your data after you've hit a certain limit. That...
If you are a frequent user of any of Google's myriad services, you have a LOT of data sitting in the company's databases. Contact information, calendars, documents of all kinds, photos and more make up the common types of information many people have begun to rely on Google to store and serve up...
Imagine carrying on business as usual if every file and all the data on your office computers were irretrievably lost tomorrow. The risk of data loss is very real. Hard drives fail more frequently than you think with thousands of businesses needing to get data recovery services each year, and most...