A wireless security flaw has been discovered in most wireless network devices which affects the WPA2 protocol. When within range, it allows attackers to exploit this weakness and potentially read data that was previously assumed to be encrypted.

Ever since the inception of wireless networking light and power users alike have always considered a wired connection the ultimate link for productivity. Despite being tied down to a certain location by wires it still made more sense in a user’s workflow because of the enormous speed advantage offered by a gigabit Ethernet connection.

BUSINESS SITUATION SOLUTION END RESULT A healthcare professional organization with confidential medical records was moving into a new office space and wanted to ensure that their data was stored with the highest level of security….

Yesterday, Microsoft held their Windows 10 Devices event in New York City to showcase their upcoming lineup of hardware built from the ground up for Windows 10. Terry Myerson of Microsoft revealed that since its launch at the end of July, Windows 10 has already been installed on over 110 million devices around the world.

Beginning tomorrow, Microsoft will begin rolling out the latest version of it’s productivity suite, Office 2016. The latest edition of Office will bring many new features to the suite, including the ability to collaborate on documents in real time, sync files to OneDrive in the cloud, and more.

This fall Apple will be releasing a new iteration of OS X: El Capitan. As the name suggests, El Capitan will be an incremental upgrade from it’s predecessor, Yosemite, and will build on the features and design changes introduced with it.

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A client of ours operates two golf course establishments within relatively close proximity to one another (direct line of sight distance is approximately 13 kilometres). They would like to have both courses connected to a common network infrastructure already in place at one of the course locations.

There is a new online threat which is targeting your online banking activity — hackers are attempting to hijack transactions and pocket the money themselves. IBM’s security division has identified this new malware, codenamed Dyre Wolf.

Microsoft is putting the final touches on it’s latest version of Office for Mac 2016. The new version of Microsoft’s Office suite is due to be released later this year, and promises to deliver many tangible improvements to both functionality and productivity.