Recently there has been a reading boom in my home. Every kid is reading and reading of their own volition. It all stared with a book called “The Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” I won’t get into to much detail about what is actually going on in the books but I am astounded by the format. Sparsely placed images amongst … Read More
How To Make A Landing Page and Why
Start At The End Once while I was struggling to complete a narrative on another post a friend said “start at the end and work your way to the beginning.” Common sense but still very wise advice. This stands true for your marketing. Often we start with technology and then try to wriggle our way to some kind of cohesive … Read More
App Development Part 3 – How are you going to pay for it or How I stopped worrying and learned to love investors.
There are no bones about it. App development is an expensive endeavor with many facets and lots of opportunities for things to go wrong. Even when you go about doing it the right way, by finding your MVP and planning accordingly, you will still have to fund the project. Most of the time when an app is being considered it … Read More
Phishing Alert – Micrоsоft Mail Suppоrt Center Message
Your email is important to you, your business, and your employees. It is the modern world’s primary way of communicating. It provides a legal paper trail for communication and can hold some extremely sensitive information. Email security is everyone’s responsibility. We have discovered a new phishing attempt making the rounds that is targeting Microsoft Outlook 365 accounts. Here is an example: … Read More
Backups – A Business Necessity
It may seem like a no-brainer to some, but there are some businesses that do not have a robust backup system in place. Backups are a necessity in the business world, regardless of how big, or how small, a business may be. If you are “backing up” your data, you may not have enough redundancy in place to recover lost … Read More
Ransomware Alert: You’re Gonna Wanacry Over Wanacrypt
Do I have Ransomware? How do you know if you have ransomware on your computer? Let’s say you sit down at your computer to work on an important project. After it turns on, you meet a popup that states, ” You must pay 0.3 Bitcoin to decrypt the data on this computer.” What do you do and what is ransomware? … Read More
Email Security – It Is Everyone’s Responsibility
Last week, the internet was set on fire by the Google Docs phishing attack. This attack was highly sophisticated, in that, it worked inside the Google Docs system. Many people clicked on this legitimate email, only to get their Google accounts hacked. What happened next is the scam was sent to everyone in their contacts. It gave the attacker full … Read More
A New Google Docs Phishing Scam – What you Need to Know
A new Google Docs phishing scam is making its way around the internet. To understand how this very sophisticated attempt works and how you could be at risk, picture the following: You are looking through your email when all of a sudden, your good friend Stan Perimeter has shared a Google Doc with you. Excited to see what your friend thought was … Read More
You could be vulnerable to this hard to detect phishing attack
There’s a new phishing attempt going around that is almost impossible to detect. This clever exploit makes bogus URLs appear as legitimate sites in both Firefox and Chrome, and can even mimic the green lock icon of secure HTTPS sites. Most users don’t know the difference, and even expert users can be fooled with these look-a-like URLs. The Chinese security … Read More
App Development Part 2 – Wire frames, Times lines, and Flow charts OH MY!
App development can be made or broken in the plan. Our experience at absolute has shown time and time again that if you want an app development project to succeed, then planning every step must be part of the process. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. If the author Robert Burns is right, then how much … Read More