IT Support in New Jersey & New York: (347) 351-3031 or (201) 645-1255

Geek Girls News

The latest on cyber security, computer support and small business IT from one of New Jersey and New York’s top managed IT service providers.

What is My Computer’s Name or Host Name?

Often a customer asks us for assistance with a computer, but if they more than one computer, we may need to identify which one they'd like remote assistance with. In order to identify which computer we are supposed to remote into, we'll sometimes ask the customer to...

read more

How to Prevent Employee Burnout

Unemployment has been on a steady downward trend for the past ten years, making keeping good employees a greater challenge than ever. Employee burnout is an important issue to address to ensure that your employees remain productive and happy. This article from our...

read more

Email Security Basics for Your Business or NonProfit

Here's an article that explains the basics of enterprise-class email security in plain English. Business-class email security should include: advanced phishing protection to protect against impostor email threats; spam and malware filtering; and URL screening to...

read more

Business Email Compromise Attempts Are a Big Problem

According to this article on the Health IT Security web site, business email compromise attempts doubled in 2018. Business email compromise occurs when a hacker attempts to impersonate an employee (usually an executive) in order to request money be transferred from...

read more

Four months to Windows 7 End-of_Life

You may have seen our article a few months ago regarding Windows Microsoft's plans to end support for Windows 7 on January 14th, 2020. This means that security and stability updates will no longer be available for Windows 7 after this time. We're now only four months...

read more

Is My Cell Phone Number Secure? 

Have you shared your cell phone number on any web sites? Once it's publicly available, your cell phone number is no longer secure. So you need to stop using SMS authentication for your logins. Instead, consider using an authenticator app like Google Authenticator or...

read more
ascii logo
Microsoft Partner
Geek Girls IT Services is a Cisco Partner
Geek Girls IT Services is a Cisco Partner
Dell Partner - Computer Services in NJ
Duo MFA Partner - Computer Services in NJ
Dropbox Business Partner Logo