I remember the ads for 23andMe. I went for it when I saw their “half-price” Black Friday deal come around. I got the mailer, spit in a tube, and some later, I got the results. It was neat, but that...

I remember having an urgent house call to visit a lovely home in a fancy part of town. The lovely couple led me to their entertainment center, which included a large-screen TV, a stunning sound system, and a Blu-Ray player…...

Windows Update keeps us up to date with security, patches and… whatever else happens to pop up in there. But some of these updates are flawed. Gasp! Including a recent “optional” update that just came off the press a few...

It’s no secret that Microsoft is trying to get more folks to upgrade to Windows 11. After all, in just over a year, Microsoft will discontinue support of Windows 10. Should you upgrade? Yes. That is… if you’re eligible to...

We’ve all been there. The famous (and dreaded) Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). It seems to only come around when you are in the middle of something important. Blue Screens are not only frustrating… they can be disruptive to an...

I’ll just come right out and say it. You can ignore the rest of this article by just reading the next paragraph. Turn on Multifactor Authentication (🔐 MFA) everywhere. Everywhere. If nowhere else, turn it on at your email account,...

I know performing updates can be a chore. Microsoft knows this, too. A recent update to Windows 11 (version 24H2) should make updates a bit easier to manage. How? Well, instead of having one big update once a month, Microsoft...

After I had wrapped up a big project with a colleague, he sent me an email summarizing things… but that email contradicted our prior discussions. It didn’t take long to realize that he used some form AI to write that...

This is borderline ridiculous. Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that it will stop security updates soon on all earlier versions of Windows 11. The bottom line: Microsoft has set a deadline for you to update to “Windows 11,...

Cyber extortion is one of those things that we think will never happen, especially to businesses with five or fewer employees. Why would cyber criminals even care? Simple: small business defenses are so weak that it’s almost comical. Facts: small...