Best Practices

March 27, 2019

Benefits of a Windows 10 upgrade

Microsoft 10's major improvements are to security and productivity, which means the features should please employees, IT staff and business owners.
March 4, 2019

Your #1 Security Threat – Well-Intended Employees

It's important to educate and reinforce physical security measures to protect your company from insider threats. Often insider threats consist of well-meaning employees who make poor decisions involving security. There's a variety of mishaps that take place at work.
April 13, 2018

The Cost of Cybercrime

Cybercrime is now the number one threat facing U.S. businesses of all size, including SMBs.
June 9, 2017

Disaster Recovery

CompuType IT Technician Matt Bjornstad spoke to the Millstadt Chamber about the daily threats to personal and business technology i.e. virus infection, ransomware, fire, water damage, […]
March 27, 2017

World Backup Day

I solemnly swear to backup my important data and precious info on World Backup Day, March 31st. What would you do if you lost everything? Click […]
March 5, 2013

Safer workplace computing

Lower your risk of spyware infection The vast majority of viruses in the workplace come from non-work related sites. Well established business websites are rarely the […]
July 19, 2012

Human eye vs. computer screen (Who is winning?)

Did you know that a normal human being blinks 20 times in a minute, whereas a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute! Have you […]
July 12, 2012

Go Go Gadgets! Microsoft Says Get Rid of Them!

On Tuesday, July 10th, 2012, Microsoft released a security advisory regarding sidebar gadgets in Windows Vista and Windows 7. All gadgets, old and new, now pose […]
July 6, 2012

The End Is Nigh?

Despite rumors to the contrary, Monday is not “Internet Doomsday”. There will be no cataclysmic shutdown, no Al Gore pulling the plug with a demonic laugh, […]
June 20, 2012

Millions of LinkedIn Passwords Hacked – Pass the Salt

LinkedIn has verified that almost 6 million of their user account passwords have been compromised as of June 6, 2012. The file containing nearly 6 million […]