Unsecured Wi-Fi, Personal Laptops Spell Disaster for All Businesses
One magazine author recently wrote, “We aren’t working from home. We are staying at home amidst a crisis, trying to get some work done.” Big difference.
In certain parts of the country during the pandemic, 75% of the workforce was mandated to work from home. That’s a lot of people forced to transition to using…
You can avoid Zoom-Bombings with a few preventative measures.
Zoom is currently the most-utilized video conferencing platform with a huge influx of subscriptions happening due to our continued shelter-in-place orders. The consequence? Adding many remote workers and home-schoolers to cyberspace alongside those of us who were already using it as a major means of communication.
Are you on…
Wade Cantrell of Cantrell’s Computer Sales & Service explains in his February 14, 2020, presentation to the CCBuRN group of BNI the risk to small business when security measures aren’t sufficient to thwart the attacks of cyber criminals. A reasonable investment in cyber security can prevent potentially devastating harm.
FBI reports that cybercrime is rapidly increasing
As your technology professional, I stay current on cybersecurity threats and trends and want to keep you informed. Please be aware the business of cybercrime has escalated rapidly over the past few years as can be seen in this FBI report released in 2019.
Most alarming is that the reported financial losses to the FBI doubled from 2017 to…
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Windows Vista is now approaching nine (9) years old and showing its age. Microsoft ended its mainstream support of this operating system in April 2012, and has stated that Windows Vista will reach end-of-life (and end support) in April 2017. Identical to what happened with users of Windows XP, end-of-life means that Microsoft will no longer release security patches to help protect t…
The end of life of the support of Windows Server 2003 has been scheduled for July 14th, 2015 by Microsoft. For those still running the Windows Server 2003 version, chances are the end of support will dramatically impact their businesses negatively. Patches or updates from Microsoft will not be available to correct new issues, and the environment will be very insecure and…
We find that we are upgrading an increasing number of our customer’s computers by replacing the original mechanical hard drives with the newer technology solid state drives (SSD). Converting to SSD storage offers many benefits over mechanical hard drives. The opportunity to convert to SSD storage is becoming easier as the price for SSDs continues to drop and the manufacturers make advances…
Pleasant Hill, CA — September 3, 2014 — Cantrell’s Computer Sales & Service – locally owned, value-added computer retail store with an outstanding computer service department, today announced it has become a Microsoft Authorized Education Reseller (AER), demonstrating its ability to meet Microsoft academic customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business…
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO OUR CUSTOMERS?
Cantrell’s Computer Sales & Service is now certified as a “Microsoft Registered Refurbisher!” The timing couldn’t be better since Microsoft is ending support of Windows XP in about a week. Many of these older Windows XP computers were destined for the metal recyler or landfill. We are now able to refurbish these PC’s and notebook computers that…