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Ransomware Explained: How to avoid or mitigate ransomware
Ransomware attacks can cause huge financial loss & disruption to organizations or individuals. Learn how to avoid & mitigate ransomware. By following best practices, organizations and individuals can reduce the risk of ransomware attacks and minimize their impact.
How to Select an Anti-Malware Solution for a Small Business
You know that protecting your company from cyber threats is crucial. With the increasing number of cyber attacks, it’s important to choose an effective anti-malware solution that fits your company’s needs and budget. Learn how, or contact us for our expert (20 year+ now) opinion.
Keeping your PC up to date is an important part of your own PC security – this is how you update your PC
CyberSecurity is a game of many parts; one part is updating your PC with software & OS updates. Here is how to update your Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC. How-to: Updating your Windows 11 PC. Updating your Windows 10 PC
How to detect a phishing email – easy steps and quick tips on how to spot phishing emails
Phishing is a type of online scam where criminals try to trick you into giving them sensitive information, like your password or credit card number. Here are some tips to help you detect a phishing email.
The rundown and reasons for Cybersecurity for small businesses in 2023
Cybersecurity is an increasingly important issue for small businesses in today’s digital age. With more and more of our personal and professional lives taking place online, it’s crucial that small business owners take steps to protect themselves and their customers from cyber threats.
Web Your Business to Merge with Computer Security Solutions
Please see the attached Press Release for details of an upcoming merge of the Web Your Business and Computer Security Solutions companies.
Let’s travel again with our computers – and do so in a safe way
Let’s travel again with our computers – and do so in a safe way. Let’s show you how we do it. We have a process and some tools to help you.
Spring has sprung, so it’s time for Spring Cleaning – including your PC
Spring is well and truly with us and what does that mean? Yes, we know it means spring storms, maybe a little hail or unexpected snow, but it also means spring cleaning.
You clean the house, the garage, the yard. Cleaning up all the crap that’s accumulated in the corners, under the deck, in the planters etc. Heck, you might even clean the hose windows – the actual windows on the house that you look through. I’ll get back to the other windows in a minute. So, do you do all this yourself? – or – do you call the guy who does this for you? Some or all of it – how many of you call a guy – or gal – who does the yard? Or the windows?
What to do next if you think you’re exposed in the 7.5M Dave.com data breach
Are you potentially in the data breach that just happened at Dave.com? If so, we have a couple of action-items you might want to take note of. Starting with your password and ending with credit monitoring.
ESET End of Life Notice for Home Users – July 2020
ESET has recently released an end of life notice for home users. Deciphering that notice for you, we've come up with a table that explains the recommended options and the highest level of ESET home product that you are able to run if you are not able to upgrade your...
Microsoft Teams: Why you need to be using Teams
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of you are reaching for collaboration tools, and one of the more popular ones is Zoom. That's a great tool, but did you know that your Office 365 subscription has Microsoft Teams, which offers collaboration tools that go way beyond...
Remote Working During the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak
Updated July 2020: At Computer Security Solutions (CSS) we have been closely monitoring monitored the situation surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The health and well-being of our employees and customers remains the utmost importance at CSS. We have...
Windows 7 End of Life: Don’t put your business at risk!
After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates or support for PCs running Windows 7. You could continue using your PC running Windows 7, but without continued software and security updates, you and your staff and students will be at greater...
monitor ghosting? It could be a 1 minute fix…
Could it be that simple? My 2nd monitor was 'ghosting' - or showing a dark shadow to the right of my image, it left me blinking and thinking I had dirty glasses... and yes... the suggested fix was so simple, that I couldn't believe it would work.... so did it work?...
Is your IT Professional a trusted advisor, or the guy (or gal) who you call when things go wrong?
Too many Business Owners keep their IT company at arms length!
Whether it’s because they have a ‘break-fix’ relationship, or because they fear large bills and have no faith that the IT solutions bring value to their business – a common approach to dealing with Information technology and the tech-company, is to have them on speed-dial and to pray you never have to call them.
Say Hello to the new Microsoft Office Icons, whether you like them or not …
Microsoft has revealed all-new Office 365 app icons with bolder, lighter hues, combined with simplistic visuals and supposedly more recognizable symbols.New Office 365 Icons.
These New Icons are supposedly easier to recognize, although they may be a little ‘different’ to those of use who have used the old icons since they were introduced in 2013.
Good News! Fighting Malware in 2019 Will Be Much Easier (Just Kidding … It Gets Way Harder)
Through 2018 the malware forecast looked good – Artificial Intelligence (AI) was being deployed against malicious threats and the outlook was becoming rosy…
Unfortunately, 2019 isn’t shaping up so well. State actors are intent on leveraging a much more affordable weapon against their foes – and that weapon is Cybercrime.
Have you ever needed to Translate a PowerPoint Presentation? Do it for free with this official microsoft addon
Have you ever needed to Translate a PowerPoint Presentation? Do it for free with this Microsoft add-on. It’s also real-time & did we say – FREE!
It can be somewhat embarrassing to realize that all the time and effort you put into your presentation might be lost in translation, when someone in the audience struggles with the language you built it in.
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