Last week a rather brutal piece of ransomware began making the rounds, impacting nearly two hundred thousand computers; private computers used in homes, computers used in business environments, and even computers used by various government agencies around the world. [Read more…]
One of our new clients purchased a small business a few years ago. The acquisition included the company’s computer, containing over a decade of legal paperwork, financial information, and customer data. The computer was an old Dell that had been built to run Windows XP, but had been upgraded with Windows Vista. In the spirit of, “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” Our client continued to use this old computer and dated software that the original owner purchased and used.
It was all going “beautifully” until one day, two weeks before she needed to get her yearly financials to her accountant, the computer decided that it just didn’t want to start up any more, as old computers are prone to do. [Read more…]
In the good ol’ days, keeping track of your small business was simple. Piles of paper scattered about the office, a couple of typewriters for document making, some pencils and ledgers to keep the books tidy, and a row of file cabinets along the south wall to keep it all safe and sound behind a door locked every night. [Read more…]