Looking Back at Our Most Popular Articles of 2021 With 2021 now fully behind us, I thought I’d take you through some of the most popular and shared content Tech Essentials produced. It was obviously a busy year for us and the world at large. The year began with a surge in COVID cases and ended with…a surge in COVID cases. Return to office (RTO) plans were thrown back into disarray, thus necessitating the continued need for WFH products like RMail [...]

Our Favorite Tech Trickery from 2021 On this last business day of 2021, you’ve by now probably had your fill of ‘best of’ lists, but please consider our own list of ‘favorite’ tech scams we’ve encountered in the past year. The sad truth is that human beings have tried to trick one another into doing things against their best interests from the dawn of time. This trickery in itself is obviously nothing new, but technology has enabled the tactics and methods to evolve greatly [...]

Top 5 (Blissful) Last Min Tech Gifts You just woke up in cold sweat because you realized that you never bought holiday gifts for your cousins who love regulations, your forgetful uncle Jerry, your quick-minded aunt, your tech-savvy nieces and nephews, and of course something for you. Now shipping deadlines have passed, store shelves are barren, and inflation has made some of those must-have items 3x what they should cost. And forget about wrapping up those gifts, as there’s hardly an [...]

Log4j and Security (In)Visibility In the IT security world, there’ve been a lot of sleepless nights recently due to a newly discovered security vulnerability that lets attackers who are not even very technically sophisticated, remotely inject code on a computer and take over control of it. This is due to a mishap in a very popular Apache Java program logging component, now nicknamed “Log4j” ( [...]

Registered Encryption, The Must-Have Gift of 2021 I’m not telling you anything new when I say that this holiday season is a bit unique—maybe not as unique (or uniquely bad) as last year, but certainly a time without precedent in my memory. First of all, it seems like the holiday shopping season got started in August, and Black Friday and Cyber Monday started weeks in advance ( [...]