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Your business needn’t be sitting on a fault line or at the bottom of a flood zone to be vulnerable to data loss. Any number of calamities can do damage to your data—from huge, howling tornadoes to tiny, silent trojan horses. Even a perfectly healthy hard drive can just up and quit, if the mood […]

At age 15, Kevin Mitnick started his notorious hacking career by bypassing the punch card system for Los Angeles’ public buses. By the age of 32, he had hacked into such companies as AT&T, IBM, Nokia, and Motorola. Companies of all sizes can fall victim to cybercrime, and the way it happens is not always […]

Why do so many businesses have inadequate data backups? It’s actually pretty easy to understand. Backing up is boring. In fact, the whole point of backing up is to maintain a nice, boring shield around your data so nothing exciting ever happens to it, such as annihilation. Many companies get a rickety backup system in […]

Don’t miss the March meeting of the Guilford County Linux Users Group. To learn more and register for this event, click here. About Guilford County Linux Users Group Guilford County Linux Users Group is a LUG for residents of Guilford County and surrounding areas. We encourage everybody with an interest in Linux to join—your skill level doesn’t […]

We take such pleasure in elevating our clients’ businesses and supporting their growth that being recognized for it is just the cherry on top. Our company is included in this year’s CRN Managed Service Providers (MSP) 500: Pioneer 250. Dynamic Quest made the list because of our laser focus on helping small to medium-sized businesses […]

Every network is vulnerable. When a company as strong and profitable as Sony Pictures gets hacked, we all realize (again) that nobody is immune to concerted efforts to break through security barriers.  Sony’s size and status were no shield.  In its Q1 2015 financials, Sony allocated over $15M to the ongoing repercussions for the hack, […]

Windows Server 2003 support is ending July 15. Panic is not the best response. If you’re running Windows Server 2003 anywhere in your network, you’ve known that this day would arrive. The day the regular stream of patches dries up. The day that servers still running Windows Server 2003 begin their steep decline. The day […]

When a leading national publication placed Dynamic Quest among the Top 50 Most Promising IT Services Companies, we were pleased, of course. It means we’re doing a good job for our clients.  CIO Review put together a distinguished panel consisting of its editorial review board as well as some prominent CTOs, CEOs and CIOs. Their […]

Microsoft Word is a valuable software that most people use daily. However, even if you are a word pro, there may be some things you don’t know about shortcuts. Shortcuts are simple keystroke actions that make doing certain tasks much easier and quicker than doing them with the mouse. Utilizing shortcuts can help content creators […]

A new strain of ransomware — SCARAB — began hitting millions of inboxes last week; make sure your business knows how to protect against it. Ransomware is now a household name, and there’s no going back. Even though cybercriminals have been using ransomware for years now, it wasn’t until the global Wanna Cry ransomware attack earlier this […]