SMB CloudTech Blog

  • 4 Ways Workplaces Can Block Phishin

    When tragedy strikes, it can briefly bring people closer together. If something dramatic takes place, minor disagreements may go on the back burner, either at a local level or even an international level. For instance, terrorist attacks in other parts of the world draw sympathy and foreign aid. ...

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  • Is Outsourcing Your IT Reverberating Back to Old School “IT Guy”?

    Your IT guy or gal is likely overworked, under tremendous stress, and pulled in multiple directions day to day and hour to hour. The typical IT shop is expected to be a one-size-fits-all collection of experts. Those IT staff members are responsible for making sure that dozens, hundreds or even ...

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  • Digital Attacks on the Rise

    “In 2015, (the FBI) received over 8,000 complaints related to these threats with a combined reported loss of nearly $275 million.” — FBI 2015 Internet Crime Report Cybercrime is on the rise again. In the three-year span from 2013 to 2015, complaints rose 10 percent. It could be far worse than ...

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  • How to Differentiate Between an IT Guru and an IT Amateur

    When it comes to your business’s information technology (IT) needs, hiring a consultant worth his keep is of critical importance. Yet many business owners and managers aren’t familiar with the nuances of IT and mistakenly hire amateurs who claim to be savvy professionals. Here’s how you can ...

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  • Small Accounting Firms can Boost Productivity by Tapping Into Technology

    Owners and managers of small- to mid-size accounting firms often feel as though they are at a competitive disadvantage with their larger counterparts. Though you can swing the balance of power in your favor by recruiting “rainmakers” and cutting costs to a certain degree, the best course of ...

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  • Data Breach and Cybercrime in California: What You Need to Know

    If you are a business owner with any kind of IT infrastructure in place, you should make sure you’re protected against cybercrime. Even though cybercrime sounds like something that only happens to governments or major corporations, more often than not, it actually takes place on the back-room ...

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  • Windows 7 and 8.1 Restore: What to Do When Windows 10 Forces an Unwanted Update

    Have you turned on your PC recently only to find your operating system totally replaced with a newer, shinier, totally unfamiliar Windows 10 platform? If you’ve been affected by a forced update and you want things to go back to the way they were, you have options. Assuming the upgrade took ...

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  • Hijacked by Windows 10: What to Do (and NOT Do!) If You Catch Your Computer Forcing an Upgrade

    Over the past few weeks, countless Windows users have been confronted with an unwanted and often unplanned Windows 10 update. These forced updates have caused major problems, including data loss, workflow interruption and system crashes. Unless you have disabled the update feature, you could be ...

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  • The Potential Downside to an Increasingly Mobile Workforce

    Humanity is rapidly hurtling forward at a breakneck speed toward a high-tech reality dominated by web-enabled mobile devices. The average worker’s typical workday has been revolutionized over the past couple of decades. For all the good that these improvements in technology have brought, there ...

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  • Don’t Close That Box! Your Windows 10 Upgrade May Be Trying to Trick You

    Countless Windows 10 users report being duped by the latest Windows 10 upgrade trick: it reportedly causes users to believe they have canceled an update by clicking the familiar red “x” at the top corner of the box. As it turns out, Microsoft had another interpretation for a user’s click of the ...

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