Month: October 2016

If you’re not already feeling the heat of compliance-regulatory scrutiny, there’s another cybersecurity-related acronym that just joined the list. Add to PCI, SOX, GLB, and HIPAA the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Those of you outside of the EU may be scratching your heads at that and saying, “Well, that doesn’t apply […]

There are many reasons business owners are feeling the pull to migrate to cloud solutions as an answer to their data protection and storage challenges. Many feel that on-premise file servers are an outmoded technology compared to the burgeoning presence of cloud storage and other services which entice with their ease of use and access. […]

As the top-rated business email client in the land by 2016 estimates, Outlook runs on approximately half a billion devices, or half the Microsoft Office Suite users. If you’re in the mood for something fun and different when it comes to Microsoft Outlook plugins, we’ve found 5 that are fun, practical, and will boost your […]

An incident first reported last month involving 68 million Dropbox users’ (a cloud service) stolen contact information shed light on cloud security – or, the presence or lack thereof. Even more disconcerting is the fact that the Dropbox hack initially took place in 2012, when LinkedIn was hacked, and a Dropbox employee’s login info was […]

June 2016 — This time, it was the University of Calgary – a sign that ransomware attackers are increasingly choosing academic institutions as a favorite victim. IT Specialist is calling it a “successful attack,” and certainly it was successful for the ransomware-ists on multiple levels. The University, in acceding to the demands of data-rustling scum […]