Crowdstrike Strikes Down Everything

A global #IToutage has left thousands stranded at airports, offices closed, and massive disruption. #Crowdstrike said the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows. How it all started: Crowdstrike says the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty…

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Laptop Care

Seems easy enough … Keep Food, Drinks, and Liquids Away It’s common sense that electricity and water aren’t a good combination. Unfortunately, liquids or breadcrumbs and laptop keyboards, for example, aren’t either. One of the most important ways to ensure your laptop’s longevity is…

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The New Buzz Word: Overemployed

Being “overemployed” is a new, on-the-down-low trend of being employed by multiple companies without each company knowing. You can accept a salary for the exchange of only being employed for that employer. But is this ethical? One says: “It just felt like I had…

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Real Estate and Mortgage Offices

Real Estate offices and Mortgage companies are especially vulnerable when it comes to network attacks.  The amount of personal data, financial information and credit history information is a hacker’s dream come true.   In most real estate and mortgage offices, each agent is an independent…

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December

It’s the second Tuesday of the month and for us in information technology that always means the same thing… It’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday.  This month Microsoft has published 4 patches (3 for the Microsoft Windows operating systems, and one for Active Directory) Here is…

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