How-To
Maximize Your PC: A Guide To Better Performance
Maximizing your PC's performance involves keeping it clean, updated, and free of unnecessary burdens.
Security
Opinion
The 10 Safest and Most Private Internet Browsers of 2025: Features, Pros, and Cons Revealed
Selecting a secure Internet browser is crucial in today's digital era, where our online activities range from banking and shopping to social networking and accessing sensitive information, making the choice of browser a vital decision for every user.
Cybersecurity
Are Our Cybersecurity Measures Ready for the Emerging Threats of 2025? A Look Back at the Worst Hacks of 2024
The number of cyberattacks and data breaches reached alarming levels in 2024 and highlight the increasing sophistication and scale of cyber threats impacting critical sectors like healthcare, telecommunications, and government infrastructure.
SocialMedia
Can You Really Trust What You See Online? Exploring Disinformation Security in the Age of Uncertainty
Disinformation is all about purposely spreading false info to trick people. It can take many forms, like misleading articles, edited images, deepfakes, or just plain fake news (Mr. Trump knows all about that), but it's planned out to strategically stir the pot.
SMART
Making Life Easier: How Smart Home Tech Gives Seniors Independence
As we grow older, the comfort of home becomes crucial. For seniors, retaining independence while ensuring safety presents a unique challenge. Fortunately, with today's technology, older adults can live securely in their own homes while accessing essential support when needed. Smart home technology is transforming how seniors experience
Security
Securing Your Connected World: Best Practices for IoT Device Safety
Our last post for #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth, brings us to the Internet of Things (IoT). Many of these devices have become an integral part of our daily routines. Smart home gadgets like Smart TV's, home sound entertainment, thermostats, Smart Assistants and security cameras enhance our lives, while wearables track our
Security
Keeping It Safe: Cybersecurity Tips for Remote Workers
Since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home became the new standard for many individuals. Many businesses quickly came to the awareness that proper functioning of the business and enhanced productivity no longer meant the enforcement of all employees being on-site at the office. While the allure of
Business
5 Easy Cybersecurity Tips for Small Businesses
In today’s digital world of constantly being connected, securing your business data is critical. Cyber threats are rising at an alarming rate, cybercrime being the third largest economy behind the US and China, and they often target small businesses, which might not have the same defenses as larger companies.
Opinion
Today's Tech - Help or Hindrance?
There are those that love technology, and those that hate it. In either case, technology runs nearly every aspect of our lives whether we like it or not. But, is technology helping us or hindering us? While tech constantly strives forward to bring bigger and "better" things, it
WiFi
Have Some WiFi Respect
When getting a new Internet provider most people choose the service, schedule the appointment, the technician comes out, he places a gateway router in your home, configures the basics, ensures it is working and leaves. You are happy, as you now have WiFi and high speed Internet and off you
Development
Blockchain - What Is It?
Blockchain technology is surely one topic that is a little confusing to many people. Even I had trouble wrapping my head around it at first and wondered... how is this better? However, once you understand that it is closely related to spreadsheets and databases where information is entered and stored,
Privacy
Is My Privacy Violated At Computer Repair Stores?
This week we are answering an important question that was emailed to us from a nearby community neighbour. This is a question that I have been asked from time to time through my IT years and it is one where I tend to tread delicately with my response. Nobody wants