Web Security: How can you have peace of mind? With the whole world in the middle of the digital age, criminals and other malicious third parties want your important information. Web security has become a Read more…
Social Media Privacy: A Myth? With the recent news of the Cambridge Analytica scandal with Facebook, many good questions are being asked about social media privacy. People are concerned with how much data Facebook, Google Read more…
ActivPC was represented by Turner Bell at the Ohio CCDC (Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition) held on March 3, in which the 5 member Cuyahoga Community College team pulled off a stunning upset of the 7-time Read more…
File Backups File Backups are important to anyone doing work on a computer. Say you get hit with a virus that erases all your personal data, or you buy a new computer. Rather than having Read more…
Internet Safety: How to protect yourself online Everyone uses the internet. There is no getting around it. But many do not consider how to use the internet in the safest way. Internet safety is sadly Read more…
Tech Support Scams We’ve all seen the tech support scams. You click a link from your email, your favorite download site, or a “related article”. When the page loads, you are met with a large Read more…
Software Update: Why Do I Need It? A notification pops up on your desktop. “UPDATE REQUIRED FOR $SOFTWARE” is the message that pops up. Why is a software update required, and is there any way Read more…
Computer Security just got Crazier Just yesterday tech news media started reporting on two very widespread computer security flaws in modern CPUs. The names for these vulnerabilities are Meltdown and Spectre. Patches for these vulnerabilities Read more…
Welcome to our Friday Tech Tip! Every Friday we will be writing a useful tech tip help our customers solve technical issues for themselves. While these tech tips may not solve every issue that you Read more…