We don’t usually think too much about the concept of email and how it operates. As long as we have an address to put on our business cards and can send and receive messages without issue, our email is functioning as it should. Email is a commodity that has become an ordinary part of our lives. But like many other … Read More
Should My Business Choose Office 365 or G Suite?
If you are starting a business or if your existing company is in need of a technology refresh, cloud-based email and collaboration services should be near the top of your list of ideas. The landscape of technology today calls for always-available connectivity and data accessibility without the convoluted methods of the past. Services like Microsoft Office 365 and Google G … Read More
How To Report Spam Or Phishing Emails With Office 365
If you’re one of the over 180 million users of Microsoft Office 365, you most likely use it for your business and/or personal email. Office 365 is highly regarded as one of the best hosted email services available due to its enterprise-class reliability and top-grade security. A great part of that security is its comprehensive spam and phishing protection. However, … Read More
Why You Should NOT Modify Your HOSTS File
Network issues can be a tricky thing to solve. What may seem like the simplest of problems could actually be rather complex behind the scenes. Since its in our nature to take matters into our own hands, those curious to try and solve the issue themselves may turn to Google to try to locate a solution. But it’s important … Read More
How To Protect Your Domain Names Integrity
In our everyday lives, we tend to make decisions based on the principle of least privilege. Our decisions related to standard occurrences are instinctively designed to provide ourselves, or those involved, with minimal access to the resources needed to get the job done. Ordering a pizza to your home? The delivery driver will only come as far as your front … Read More
Why Fake News Should Be Taken Seriously
Most recently our Facebook feeds were filled with chain letters claiming that if you received a friend request from someone that it was an imposture that had created a fraudulent account and now you too may be affected and so on and so on and so on… Every other post on my feed was another chain letter – same as … Read More
How To Avoid Phishing Scams
How to avoid Phishing scams Remember when all those advertisements used to come in the mail to your house? We used to call it “junk mail” and immediately threw it away, never looking twice at it. Now instead of being delivered to your house and placed in your mailbox, it is now being delivered electronically to your computer or mobile … Read More
Net Neutrality Is Over! The End Of The Open Internet?
About four years ago, I wrote a piece regarding the Open Internet called “Net Neutrality and the Internet Slowdown: What you need to know!”. In this blog post, I discussed a protest that was organized to show us how the Internet might look like if we lost Net Neutrality. On December 14th, 2017, the FCC voted to repeal the 2010 … Read More
Net Neutrality and the Internet Slowdown: What you need to know!
We all remember seeing this when trying to access our favorite website…or do we? I might be showing my age here but I remember the days of dial-up internet connections when loading a website meant going to grab a cup of coffee while you waited for the page to show up. While the symbolic “Internet Slowdown” (which is scheduled to … Read More