Microsoft announced on Tuesday, November 4th that they will be partnering with Dropbox in a joint effort to corner the document creation and storage market. This partnership has surprised some tech experts, as Microsoft recently boosted their cap on Office 365’s cloud storage space on OneDrive from 1 TB to unlimited storage for as low…

Don’t Forget to Remember Those Serving, Those Who Have Served & Those Who Have Fallen on November 11th, 2014 Every year on November 11th, we take a moment of silence to honour the men and women who have served and who continue to serve our country during times of war and conflict. Remembrance day is…

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Sometimes surfing the web is more like clinging to a piece of driftwood over shark-infested waters than it is relaxing on a boogie board off some warm island paradise. Every single day 20,000 to 30,000 new malicious URLs pop up, and some of those are taking over sites that were once safe. Here are 5…

Whether you’re going away for the holidays, summer vacation, spring break, or a business trip, it’s never too early to start planning your next trip, which includes planning when to purchase airline tickets. Similar to anyone who travels quite a bit, you’re already aware that the prices on some tickets might make you want to…

Microsoft reports a US$908 Million increase in revenue from sales of its third generation tablet product. After 2013’s US$900 Million “inventory adjustment” for the Surface RT, this boom in sales is causing Microsoft to gain ground in the highly competitive tablet market. Microsoft cites the June release of the Surface Pro 3 as a primary…

Daylight Savings Time will end this year on Sunday, November 2, 2014. Aside from the extra hour of sleep and the evening commute in darkness little will change for the business world. Almost all technological devices – from the smartphone whose alarm you depend on to your workstation computer, should automatically update its internal clock…

Your sensitive data is the foundation of your business, but unfortunately, your data is constantly at risk – from natural disasters to human errors to malicious intent, many businesses have experienced some form of data loss; and the latest form of ransomware strives to steal and encrypt as much data as possible. Introducing CryptoWall 2.0:…

The transactional relationship is the norm in business: sales pitches and purchase orders, tender for services rendered. We all know the rhythm, we all sing along with the tune. It is the basis for most business models, and it is rare for an organization to elevate itself beyond relating to its customers as just that,…

CryptoWall, a dangerous form of ransomware that’s similar to CryptoLocker, infiltrates users’ computers and encrypts their files, then demands a ransom fee for the decryption key. So how does the ransomware infect computers? Well, there’s a few ways: Spam emails with malicious links/attachments. Drive-by download attacks from infected websites. Various other forms of malicious activity….