Are you getting fed up with all of the passwords you have to manage? Are you perpetually reusing the same password? Well, you are not alone! Our Virtual Chief Information Officers (vCIOs), Paul and Ty have been getting a lot of questions lately from our clients about...
Big data breaches are happening much more frequently than ever before. The latest is the People Data Labs (PDLs) breach that occurred on October, 16 2019. Detected by security researchers, Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko, the breached exposed 1.2 billion people and...
Shadow IT is likely a new term for most of us. It refers to technology, usually software or devices, introduced and used outside the awareness or control of IT management.
Internet Explorer (IE) has been a long-standing staple of the work computer. It is used to do everything from accessing internal tools, to casual web browsing during coffee breaks. And, while it was once good and handy, time has not been kind to the little ‘e’ — it has become a very big risk.
Smart Dolphins was born at a time when people surfed the net through dial-up and email was considered new-age. Technology progressed and IT support became more complex than just answering the phone quickly and plug wiggling. In response, we developed our comprehensive...
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an additional layer of security that offers greater protection against hackers. MFA requires two different factors to verify a user. Login credentials are most commonly used in addition to accessing a passcode from another trusted...
We’re getting lots of inquiries about infections from Mindspark/MyWebSearch/Ask toolbars. Who is Mindspark? A marketing firm and data reseller. What is it? Mindspark offers hundreds of different toolbars with different names, the most common being the ‘Ask’...
How many passwords do you have to access in your day-to-day work? Is there as many as 20 or how about up to 50? According to LastPass, a small business employee has an average of 85 passwords that they will have to use at some point. All your passwords must be managed...
Want to know if your login credentials have been breached? Check out Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com “Have I Been Pwned” is a specialized search engine which allows you to check your email address against known data breaches to tell you if...
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