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How Cybercriminals are Foiling Today’s 2FA for Email Accounts.

Dr. Suess created that grey fuzzy-haired creature many years ago, the Grinch, who stole Christmas. While not quite as cute and fuzzy as the Grinch, today’s cybercriminals are posing as a similar sounding nefarious activity, the Glitch.

Espionage or Error? The US military’s new email nemesis is Timbuktu.

Where are most of the US Military’s secrets and not so secrets ending up? Not in one of the cybercriminal hotbed countries, but in the ancient trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route, the city of Timbuktu.

It’s simply in our DNA, to be feature-rich plus much more affordable. The last weekend of summer has arrived. The days are getting shorter, the kids are back in school, and your colleagues have all returned tanned from their vacations. Correspondingly, our Mid-Summer Tech Essentials Sale has also wound down. However, there still are a […]

5 Top Tech Trends for The Year (So Far) It’s great to be traveling again, especially to conferences that inspire all kinds of new insights—insights that can be passed on to RPost friends and customers. After nearly two years of being holed up in front of my laptop and ring light, the ability to fly […]

Three Tech Tips For Your Backyard BBQ Chit Chat It’s always useful to have something to chat about at the holiday BBQ’s other than sports, weather, and summer vacation plans. Here are three popular “How To’s” that will make you appear to be a tech guru during your chit chat!

Are We Still in an Interconnected World? Apple’s Big Sur Sure Made Us Aware Are we still living in an interconnected world? There is now talk of more isolation — that is unless you have your COVID immunity passport (as we discussed in our article “The “New” Haves and Have Nots”). While travel may become […]

No “October Surprises” at Our Optimize! FinTech Conference (Just Great Insights from Amazing Customers) We at Tech Essentials realize this has been a doozy of a week in terms of news—mostly political and mostly bad. For those who needed a respite from Tuesday’s chaotic debate and the torrent of election-focused headlines, we offered a live virtual […]

Pig Latin Will Remain a Legal form of Encryption As today’s technological and political environments are becoming ever more polarized, it is useful once again the think about these trends in the context of America’s foundation—i.e. the reason for celebrating Independence Day in America.

Is Work from Home Here to Stay Permanently? Almost everyone around the world is working from home, due to the imposed lockdown to battle the Covid-19 pandemic. This arrangement has a lot of benefits for both employees and employers. But, will the work from home continue even after the lockdown restrictions are lifted?

Will you be working from home ‘FOREVER’? A lot has been made recently about the Twitter CEO telling his employees that they can work from home ‘forever’ if they see fit. This past Tuesday, the Twitter CEO sent out a much-talked-about email (funny he didn’t use his company’s namesake product for this). The email states, […]