Malicious software (be it viruses, rootkits, Trojans, worms, or malware) is so prevalent, it seems one of the primary jobs for IT is to protect, clean, and remove it. Yet no matter how hard you try, or how much you pay for the software you use to protect your desktops, it always seems like a losing battle. Fighting a losing battle really hurts when you’re spending a good deal of your IT budget (if you even have an IT budget) …
List Of Security Problems Ignored Often
IT administrators are often so busy just trying to keep up with the obvious security threats that many more problems fly under the radar. Here are 10 security risks you may have in your organization that you are not aware of.
1: Your employees
Your own employees are your biggest source of security risks. Sometimes, it is deliberate; sometimes, it is not. Employees have the most access and the most time. We expend a lot of effort worrying about external …
10 things you have to know to be computer literate
1: Search engines
Using a search engine is more than typing in the address, putting a couple of keywords into the big text box, clicking Search, and choosing the first result. While that may work, it won’t give you the best results much of the time. Learning the advanced search, Boolean operators, and how to discern good results from bad results goes a long way toward enabling you to use a computer as a powerful research tool.
2: Word …
Share Large Files over the Internet
If you are to share a large file with someone over the Internet, there are generally two options – you can either attach the files to an email message or, if the files are too big to fit in an email program, you can upload them to an online storage service and then share the download links with the recipient.
Let’s now explore some of the popular services that’ll make it easy for you to transfer large files over the …
