by Compudata | Jan 31, 2020 | Blog, Security
With all of the accounts that people have these days, it almost–almost–makes sense that people tend to use passwords that are too short, overly simple, and repeat across multiple accounts. Unfortunately, the only thing this does is to make accounts less...
by Compudata | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog, Tip of the Week
Now that Windows 7 is history, Windows 10 is the predominant operating system on workstations. It doesn’t take users long to realize that it is superior in many ways to older OSs, but when you start it up for the first time, you will want to customize things a bit so...
by Compudata | Jan 27, 2020 | Blog, Technology
The smartphone has come to define computing in recent years. With this new role, public demand for more powerful and useful hardware persists in every market. As the calendar turns to 2020, the flagship phones offer a computing experience that is remarkable. Today, we...
by Compudata | Jan 26, 2020 | Security
Ransomware attacks on federal government contractors raise questions about the security of government data. A construction company that’s won millions of dollars worth of contracts with the military and other federal departments has been hit by a ransomware...
by Compudata | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog, Technology
Shadow IT is the moniker that people in the technology industry have coined for applications that employees download that aren’t vetted for use on an organization’s networks. For the better part of the past decade, IT administrators have universally demeaned the use...