Technology is always changing and evolving quickly. It can be difficult to keep up with everything a user needs to know. This handy guide is meant to be a quick reference for any tech terms that might be new to you. Bolded terms within definitions are found elsewhere...
Finding the best answers on the internet can be a challenging and time-consuming task for busy professionals. Searching the web can result in a lot of irrelevant or outdated information, and sifting through the information can take far longer than you want to...
A zero-day vulnerability, known as CVE-2023-5129, has been discovered in a commonly used graphics file format called WebP. A zero-day vulnerability is an exploit found in a recently released update, so recent that there aren’t patches available yet. This vulnerability...
Microsoft launched the new version of Bing in February of 2023; on July 18, 2023, they announced Bing Chat Enterprise. Photo courtesy of Microsoft. The company cites corporate customers’ thoughts for this launch: “we’ve heard from many corporate customers who are...
All VIP Support clients and their employees can now access our support portal at https://support.spiretech.com to create and view your support tickets. SpireTech Customer Portal Instead of emailing or calling in your support request, please consider using the...
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a group made up of volunteers and experts hoping to educate individuals and enterprises on common and damaging cyberattacks. Their security standards are often cited by cyber insurance companies as being within compliance....
This image was generated with AI Search engines are changed forever. Whether powered by OpenAI with Bing or Google’s Bard, Internet search engines will soon be propped up by artificial intelligence, if they aren’t already. People have begun interacting...
The shiny new phishing tactic on the block is malvertising, or the efforts of threat actors to mimic a legitimate company’s website, landing pages, URL, and more. Google Ads has recently come under fire for their handling of final destination URLs, and the relative...
The NordPass Research team has published a list of the 200 most popular passwords. If you use any of these most popular passwords... don’t worry, we have recommendations to create strong passwords in 2023. NordPass Research partnered with independent researchers who...
Continuous phishing education is important to anyone who uses the Internet. So, pretty much everyone. A "successful" phishing campaign can lead to the loss of sensitive data, personal information distributed, or extortion. People know not to click on spam messages, or...