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Bob Miller

Bob Miller

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Lets Talk About Ransomware

If you haven't already seen the images of long lines and closed gas stations in Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas, you've probably at least heard that there has been a recent disruption in oil transportation on the East Coast. On May 7, the 5,500 ...

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Tagged With: Cyber Security

It’s Time to Disable RDP

Our technology team strives to be at the forefront of both implementing improvements and securing against threats to our system. Recently we disabled remote access due to rising security concerns. If your business is using remote access, we'd ...

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Tagged With: Technology

New in Tech: How does Bitcoin Work?

How does bitcoin work?  There are public keys and private keys; the public key is given to anyone to add bitcoin while the private key is used to withdraw bitcoin protected by elliptic curve cryptography and governed by mathematics.

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New in Tech: What is Bitcoin?

Almost 25 years ago I did a presentation for the Harrisburg PA Area NetWare User Group on two technologies that I thought were going to become important, the subject was titled "OS/2 on the Internet". A large group turned out, they may have been ...

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What are Managed Services?

Low-cost way of managing your network infrastructure Managed Services is the practice of outsourcing computer management responsibilities and functions and a strategic method for improving operations, cutting expenses, and minimizing downtime. What ...

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Top Five IT Risks for Businesses In 2016

Protecting your business has become more challenging as threats are increasingly infiltrating in a variety of ways. It is critical to have an IT security plan in place to protect your company and educate your staff. 1. Regulatory non-compliance

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Tagged With: Cyber Security

Ransomware Virus Holding you Hostage?

Ever had a run in with a ransomware virus? A ransomware virus such as CryptoWall is a virus that will encrypt files on your local computer then move on to any mapped drive letters. It can be “caught” as easily as clicking on a web .pdf. The first ...

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Windows 10 is Snappy

Updating to Windows 10 It was not without some trepidation that I decided to update my computer to Windows 10. Having been released just a week ago my normal consideration would be to let others be guinea pigs and benefit from their suffering. This ...

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