Small Business IT Management

How to Wipe Your USB Drive Before Throwing It Away

Posted on March 20, 2019 by

USB drive users need to exercise caution when throwing away or recycling those devices, according to a Wednesday study from Comparitech. Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire purchased 200 used USB flash drives—half from the US, half from the UK—to determine how securely data on the drive was stored before being disposed of. Some 68%

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Is Your Business Vulnerable to Cyberattack? Understanding Your Risks and Protecting Your Sensitive Data

Posted on February 27, 2019 by

Regardless of what size your business is, you shouldn’t ignore cybercrime. Everyone is a target. Too many small businesses believe they are too little for cybercriminals to target them, thinking their data has no value. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2016 State of Cybersecurity in Small and Medium-Sized Business study, about 55% of small and

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Two Quick Ways to Copy Data From One Excel Workbook to Another

Posted on February 20, 2019 by

Copying a sheet of data from one workbook to another sounds like a complicated job. In truth, Excel has a built-in feature that makes quick work of this task, but as usual, there’s more than one way to get the job done in Excel. First, I’ll show you Excel’s built-in route. Then, I’ll show you

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Chrome Power User Features Everyone Should Know

Posted on January 30, 2019 by

Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers in the world, but it’s actually much more feature rich than something simply designed to browse the web. Chrome is almost a little self-contained operating system with its own apps and management structure. In fact, when it comes to Chromebooks, it literally works as an

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773 Million Email Addresses Compromised in New Data Breach

Posted on January 24, 2019 by

The latest data breach to hit the internet isn’t an attack on a big internet company like Facebook or Yahoo, when one billion accounts were breached. Instead, it’s a massive collection of email addresses and passwords compiled from a number of data breaches. Dubbed Collection #1, this data dump includes 773 million email addresses and

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