We hate to make sweeping generalizations, but we feel pretty confident when we say that most people know what a computer virus is. However, there are so many different types of viruses out there that beyond the broad stroke definition things may get...

We talk a lot about the importance of having a strong antivirus program and regularly and routinely patching your systems. It’s all for good reason. These measures protect your systems against attacks and vulnerabilities that could potentially...

There you are, clicking through your inbox on an ordinary Monday when … wait, what was that? Why is something downloading? What the heck is going on? Did you just get hacked?!

There are two things you hear about almost incessantly in the IT world - backups (seriously folks, back your stuff up!), and patching. Backups make sense - pretty much everyone understands the importance of having an additional copy of their...

Having a computer virus may seem like an incredibly inconvenient but relatively minor issue… until it affects an entire city’s computer system. That’s exactly what happened in Portsmouth, New Hampshire earlier this year. The town was hit by a Trojan...