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19Feb

Making Sense of Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery (DR) – a popular term in the IT industry, and an important subject for businesses. How does one explain disaster recovery to an organization without confusing them more than clarifying? Or without boring them? First, there are two critical terms we need to familiarize ourselves with and understand. Recovery Time Objective (RTO): Simply put, […]

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04Feb

Protecting Your Website From Hackers. Yes It Can Happen!

You’re kidding yourself if you think that your business website is safe from hackers. They’re not just after the likes of Sony, Home Depot, and other large corporations. In fact small businesses are often the target of cyber attacks more so than large corporations because they don’t have the budget or technical power to prevent […]

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15Dec

Levi Explains Phishing Scams

We’re not talking about embellishing the truth about the size of that trout you caught. In today’s digital world, phishing is defined as the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money) by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. There have been some […]

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11Apr

The Heartbleed Virus: What You Need to Know.

The Heartbleed virus has been out in the wild for a little over two years now. So why all of the panic all of a sudden? Here’s what you need to know about the latest virus threat to hit mainstream media: What is The Heartbleed Virus? Heartbleed is a security bug or programming error in […]

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09Dec

Protect Your Android

There are over 500,000 Android-based phones activated daily, making it the best-selling type of smartphone in the world. Which means that the risk for viruses, malware and security breaches are higher than other devices. There are over 1,000 new Android apps added to the marketplace each day, and downloads on the Android Marketplace have reach […]

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03Dec

Introducing Partek Protect

Every business has critical data that it relies on. Whether it’s accounting files from Simply Accounting or Quickbooks, or client and patient records, to drawings, Word and Excel documents. The bottom line is, your business can’t operate without access to this data. Introducing ‘Partek Protect’ – the affordable, secure, completely manageable online backup solution. Why […]

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28Jul

Why Your Business Should Care About Disaster Recovery

Okay, I know what you’re saying – What on earth is ‘disaster recovery’? Simply put, disaster recovery are the processes and systems put in place that allow your business (or more specifically its technology), to operate in the event of a disaster or emergency. This ‘disaster’ could include floods, fires, theft, epidemics etc. So why […]

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17Feb

Why Small Businesses Should Care About Computer Security

With so much to think about when starting a business, it is little wonder that many start-up businesses often overlook the importance of Computer Security. In fact recently AVG Anti-Virus performed research that identified that as many as 1 in 5 start-up or single-employee businesses are not using any security software at all. We believe, […]

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04Jun

Get Real! What is Fake Antivirus?

What is Fake Antivirus? FakeAV, or Fake Anti-Virus, is one of the most frequently-encountered and persistent threats on the web. This malware, with over half a million variants, uses social engineering to lure users onto infected websites. Once the FakeAV is downloaded onto the user’s computer, the software will scare them into believing their system is […]

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14May

Why Is Network Security Important?

Before you decide that you’re just a small business with a dozen computers and that hacker’s aren’t interested in your company data, STOP, and think again. We can’t stress this enough: Small Businesses are an even bigger target than large, corporate networks, due to the fact that they don’t have a large IT budget, and […]

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