Installing antivirus software is a great first step toward protecting your computer. Still, relying on that software to keep viruses at bay may not be the best thing. Working with…
You come across a thumb or USB drive you don't recognize. Maybe you find it in the parking lot of your building or by the copier in the office. You're curious…
Working for a small business, you can be asked to wear many hats. Even if one of your many roles is not IT, you may need to speak up about…
Hollywood would have us believe that cyberattacks are elaborately planned and use expensive, sophisticated tools developed by James Bond’s tech guru, Q. Yet in real life, most hacks are nothing…
Why Do People Create Viruses? You’d be right in thinking it’s hard to program a computer virus that can spread across the world in a flash - we’re talking days…
Sometimes computers do wacky things that ring alarm bells and make us dive for cover. Next thing you know, you’re running scans on repeat and demanding everyone come clean about…
You were simply searching the web when suddenly you get a scary popup window that you can not close. According to the window, your computer has been locked because it is infected.…
Cybercrime is not the most costly of illegal activities. That dubious distinction goes to government corruption, followed by drug trafficking. Cybercrime comes in third. Yet cybercrime does take the top…
