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...
by Compudata | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog, Tip of the Week
How well-maintained are your business’ critical IT solutions? Before you answer, you should know that we’re referring to more than just running the occasional virus scan or update – we’re talking about keeping up on the status of your entire infrastructure. To...
by Compudata | Jan 20, 2020 | Blog, Technology
The data stored on your computer is valuable, and that’s a fact. Unfortunately, this means that there are unscrupulous characters out there who will want to get at this data, so you will need to have the right solutions in place to protect it. Part of this will...
by Compudata | Jan 17, 2020 | Blog, Security
Cybercrime has been on the rise over the last few years, and it doesn’t look like it will be slowing down anytime soon. As it turns out, bad actors can turn a profit by targeting businesses, and their tools and tactics are only getting trickier. Over the last three or...
by Compudata | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Tip of the Week
In business, Portable Document Format (PDF) documents are encountered constantly. The benefit is that they are a great way to share and receive documents on any device. One main problem many people run into is that they think that it’s a read-only format. Today, we...
by Compudata | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog, Business
Fortunately, businesses are doing more to secure their data. It wasn’t always so, but with the current threat landscape the way it is, it is essential that business owners do what they can to protect their data. A critical part (but not the only part) of this is to...
