We’ve been instructing our clients for years now to ensure all web-based access which contains personal or confidential data in any form should be encrypted with SSL which is most easily identified by looking at your URL and ensuring there’s https (‘s’ for secure) at the beginning vs http (insecure when it lacks the ‘s’).…
DetailsToday from about 9:48am until 12:25pm, our clients in the Toronto area had an ADSL Internet access outage if served through Bell Canada. If such an outage has caused you grief beyond minor inconveniences, we offer free telephone consultations to discuss some options to increase your Internet connection reliability or offer redundant connectivity options, where…
DetailsA few years ago, Nerds On Site was one of the first providers to offer unlimited mailboxes (and we are still one of the few!). Giving clients unlimited space for their emails has had an unanticipated affect for some users, and we wanted to help spread the word about issues that can happen due to…
DetailsThis morning I received a phishing email supposedly from QuickBooks, warning me that I would no longer be able to access my QuickBooks without first downloading their new Intuit Security Tool. I see some of you smirking already, and you’re right – I wasn’t fooled for a moment. But think of how many non-techies WILL be fooled by such an email?
DetailsCBC has a very interesting article on it’s website with some stats about Small Businesses in Canada. Here are some of the facts. The rest of the article can be found here.
DetailsThis morning I received a phishing email supposedly from QuickBooks, warning me that I would no longer be able to access my QuickBooks without first downloading their new Intuit Security Tool. Think of how many non-techies WILL be fooled by such an email? This email was sent from a hacked website, and it reminded me…
DetailsHere are a couple of apps that were suggested for us to feature in the past month. Geoff Heys suggested “Downcast” in the comments. “It allows me to subscribe to podcasts and download episodes without needing to sync with iTunes on a compute,” he said. “A big step forward to “untethering”. According to the description…
DetailsAs all nerds (and non-nerds) should be, I try to be security-conscious everywhere. One of the ways I stay aware on my MacBook Air is to use a little tool called Little Snitch, which I strongly recommend. Steve Jobs’ last keynote included a tour of Apple’s new Data Centre and we assumed Apple, in its…
Details[this post is from Dennis Houseknecht, a Nerd in Virginia, USA] QR codes are popping up everywhere – and they are very convenient. Not surprisingly, they are also an opportunity to send users to malicious websites. This is a significant risk, especially for Android users. Whether you love and Android or “not-so-much”, there is not…
Details[thanks to Mike Duffy from Nerds On Site Calgary for this post] Nerds On Site NOW offers “TimeWellScheduled” your Business Schedule & Pay Roll Solution. Time Well Scheduled is a Fully Tailored Time and Attendance program that can; Increase Profitability, Reduce Payroll Administration Costs, Reduce Time Spent and Simplify Employee Scheduling, Increase Employee Productivity, and…
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