It’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and ITC wants to help your business by providing useful safety tips and tricks. Last week, we discussed why hackers love attacking small businesses. This week, we’re focused on healthcare and the importance of keeping patient data secure. If you run a healthcare office, you understand the importance of keeping patient information…
This past summer was the season of ransomware. Too many unprepared businesses fall victim to this malware and struggle to retrieve their lost data. Your business can avoid ransomware with the proper preventive measures, saving you stress, time and money. In case you don’t know, ransomware is a virtual threat that installs on a victim’s computer and makes their files completely useless. To restore…
As a new business owner, you’ll need to learn to let go. There’s often this fear of letting go of tasks, because we think we’re the best to handle the job. Yet, there’s a million other things we should be doing instead. Unfortunately, you can’t expect to be everywhere at once. Nor do you want to…
For business owners, Quickbooks is a necessity. This piece of accounting software is one of the most common used in business. It is a handy, all-inclusive tool that lets you manage your business from one location. Sometimes though, it decides it doesn’t want to do its job. Quickbooks issues are so common, sometimes they seem to be a feature…
Businesses use technology every day. Because of this, there have always been people who try to use this technology against their users to extort money or information – sometimes both. Recently, a new hack was found that allows an attacker to break into your Mac or iPhone just by sending you a picture. Sending the…
If you work in the modern world, you’ve most likely used Outlook at least once. Similarly, if you’ve used Outlook, you’ve probably been infuriated when it didn’t work. Although Outlook has many advantages to the business world, it also likes to break constantly. Fortunately, most of the issues you’ll encounter with the program are easy…
Look into any newspaper and you will see at least one story of someone getting hacked. Whether it be a Twitter account or their POS systems, you can’t argue that security is a big issue. Nobody wants their data to be subjected to malware, but not everybody knows how to keep it out. With a…