The world, and your business, can change on a dime. Customers want what they want, and they want it now. We have all come to expect this. This need for instant gratification is not a new concept, of course. Still, the urgency of quick responses and reliable uptime continues to snowball as we are more and more reliant on the web for our businesses and lives. In a time when we are hyper-connected, the need for quick answers and instant satisfaction can be too much sometimes, too unnerving. If your small-to-medium-sized business website fails to load or loads slowly, you can lose customers to your competitors. You will almost certainly lose prospective customers. When is the last time you asked [...]

What is Smishing? Smishing is a type of phishing attack but instead of arriving by email, as phishing attacks generally do, they come via text message or SMS message.  Smishing attempts are the fastest-growing type of phishing attacks because they are easy for hackers to carry out and their success rates are relatively high. According to Verizon’s 2020 Mobile Security Index, smishing attacks have gone up by more than 600% in the past year. This trend is projected to continue, especially as we move into the holiday season. Experts believe that the reason for smishing’s high success rate is that most people are less wary of attacks via text message than they are when it comes by email. People are [...]

It’s spring cleaning time and since you’re sheltering in place, there is no better time than now to get your digital house in order. We have come up with 6 easy at-home IT Projects that will increase your security, organization, and quality of life. 1. Update WiFi Passwords You’ve got your home WiFi all set up.  You’ve connected your Alexa, your Nest thermostat, and your Ring doorbell and everything works great. Then your lazy brother-in-law comes and crashes on your couch and mooches off your Internet.  He’s got your home WiFi password and passes it on to all of his friends.  Now they’re on your network, playing online poker and emailing Nigerian princes, and they have access to all of [...]