Trouble With Coverage? Let me start off by saying my mom has the worst Wi-Fi. I’m not going to call out her provider, but it’s awful. There are dead spots and it’s incredibly slow. Even after paying for higher bandwidth, she barely gets coverage. Her Wi-Fi devices (like the Fire Stick and Alexa) have to […]
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We Asked, You Answered We like to ask the public from time to time about habits they have pertaining to certain activities. We’ve dug into work habits during the pandemic, RDP awareness, and now holiday shopping habits. Over 5000 people answered our shopping survey. With 53% stating that their shopping habits have changed due to
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Cookies and Trackers and Ads, Oh My! We’ve been talking a lot recently about cookies, trackers, and ads. We know that social media is selling our data. We also know that cookies and trackers are watching what we’re doing. This is something we accept even though we don’t have to like it. But what if
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The CMMC and The CDM Under the Trump administration, new security measures came out to help strengthen the US government’s cybersecurity infrastructure. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program is a new set of cybersecurity standards developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) to protect defense contractors from cyber attacks. Additionally, the Continuous Diagnostics and
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Watch What You Share We spent a lot of time talking in November about online privacy and security. I know people aren’t going to delete their Facebooks, but there are ways to make it more secure. In addition to the security measures below, there are some basic common sense tips. Watch what you share. When
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Am I Getting Hacked Have you ever been scrolling the internet and clicked on a site that you’ve been to many times before only to receive an error message like the ones below? This can be unnerving. But what are these warnings? Is the site really unsecure? Well, maybe, but not always. This usually happens
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What Are They Ad blockers are a great way to declutter webpages. Have you ever clicked on a Pinterest recipe or a sports headline only to have to scroll through endless ads to get to the content you want? An ad blocker clears all of those for you. There’s another advantage to using ad blockers.
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If You Didn’t Know If you hadn’t heard, Chinese based app TikTok was on a time crunch. The US government, citing the app as a security risk, gave the owners an ultimatum; sell to a US company or get banned. Even though the date for this ultimatum kept getting pushed back, the demand still stood.
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An FTC Warning The Federal Trade Commission takes pride in their mission to “champion the interests of American consumers.” While they track and monitor retailers, they also do the same with our spending habits. This leads to a comprehensive ability to identify trends or concerns. Recently, they’ve issued a warning regarding online shopping. In the
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Are You Ready? We are inundated with advertisements this time of year. Retailers across the globe are trying to get our attention (and our money) by offering deals on items they think we may gift. There are the brands we all know and use, but then there are the smaller niche items that also may
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