“All for one, one for all,” as the Three Musketeers famously like say. Such is the state of our “dynamic trio.” Together your workstation’s SSD, processor, and RAM form the vital triumvirate that ultimately serves as the basis for all computational functions performed. In goes like this: the second you boot up our computer, the
“Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?” It's been many decades since the beloved Mr. Rogers posed that question, and many decades since we each left childhood behind. We got older, we went to college, and a few of us — perhaps you? — found growth in one particular idea: we
As Elizabeth Barrett Browning once wrote in her 1850 masterpiece Sonnets from the Portuguese, “How do I love accounting software? Let me count the ways.” Okay, we'll admit: it's been a few years since we read her collection of poems, so there's a slight chance we’re misremembering. But the spirit of the quote? That still
“Carte blanche” is a fun term to say, but toss it into a sentence about your information security and suddenly it foretells some bad repercussions: “we gave our employees carte blanche access to their workstations, and now we’ve got more viruses than a CDC laboratory.” Sounds bad, doesn’t it? That’s because it really is. Allowing
You probably don’t think too much about where your internet comes from. If it works, it just works, and you don't really notice it — your portal to the web is accessible and usable and it's usability is reality: what is has always been and thus shall always be… until your cat knocks the router
It’s hard to imagine a life without web browsers — a time when life once existed, unperturbed, without the whole of humanity’s collective knowledge right at our fingertips. And while it’s unlikely you’ll need to learn how to respoke a wagon wheel, or develop a slightly less stabby cultivar of the prickly pear, modern corporations
It’s hard to imagine a life without web browsers — a time when life once existed, unperturbed, without the whole of humanity’s collective knowledge right at our fingertips. And while it’s unlikely you’ll need to learn how to respoke a wagon wheel, or develop a slightly less stabby cultivar of the prickly pear, modern corporations
File synchronization and sharing doesn't need much more than a one word explanation: Dropbox. Though mostly used by smaller teams and consumers, Dropbox recently decided to jump into the ring as a major business and enterprise provider, rapidly increasing its market credibility with both G-Suite and Salesforce integrations. Powering companies as diverse as Hewlett Packard,
In our last post we talked about social engineering, and how it uses our human nature against us to gain access to personal information we wouldn't otherwise divulge. Social engineering, in a sense, is a method of hacking the human brain. Since it’s often much easier to convince someone to give you something voluntarily, hackers
It's your lucky day! You've just received an email from a Nigerian Prince, and only you can help him claim his lost inheritance! Despite the fact that Nigerian politics take place within a three-branch, federal republic framework modeled after that of the U.S. — complete with a democratically elected head-of-state (a.k.a. President) — you still
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