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Payment Share App Safety

Instant Money…Maybe? The popular commercial asks, “What’s in your wallet?” and if you ask most anyone, it probably isn’t...

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Hacker Helper

Are You a Hacker Helper? Here you go, let me get the door for you.  Are you looking for access to my company’s network? ...

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Security Risk Rate vs. Spend Rate

Security Risk Rate vs. Spend Rate According to the 2019 SMB IT Security Report from Untangle, 80% of the small to medium...

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A New Approach to Healthcare Cybersecurity

A New Approach to an Old Problem Resistance to yet another government regulation, a lack of understanding the complexiti...

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Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Dorian.

Hurricane Dorian is fast approaching and now is categorized as a 5. Your current backup and disaster recovery plans shou...

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Why We Need to Go Beyond HIPAA

HIPAA – Then & Now The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA, has been around s...

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Changing our Attitudes About Password Security

Live and Learn Most situations teach us lessons so that we don’t repeat damaging behaviors. For example, if you touch a ...

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A New Kind of Cyber Threat to MSPs

There is a rise in awareness with small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) of the threat to their cybersecurity.  The pro...

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Passwords: Why You Shouldn’t Reduce, Reuse & Recycle

The Excuses  It’s not easy! It’s a lot to keep track of. I have no idea where I’ve used that before. There’s nothing in ...

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How to avoid being phished!

1. Who is it from? The number one easiest way to tell if an email you are reading is a phishing attempt is to read who t...

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VLOG #4 – Unifi Wifi – The system we use to help our clients.

Watch Vlog #4 Below https://www.ipmcomputers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/VLOG3.mp4

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Need To Know Keyboard Shortcuts

As regular users of computers, we like to be able to move through them as easily as possible. Some of us like to move fa...