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What Is a Password Mask Attack? 

April 12, 2023

By now we all know the importance of creating strong and unique passwords. We have all gotten smarter about how to create and store passwords as well as the gravity of having unique passwords for each of our accounts. Unfortunately, having a password is no longer as effective protection as it once was for our…

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Announcing Spectra’s New Location at Mills58 

March 21, 2023

After years of growing our IT Service company in historic downtown Peabody, Spectra Networks is excited to announce our move to Mills 58 on Pulaski Street in Peabody. We look forward to the continued expansion of our team and business.  Our offices are located in Suite B4-7 within the Mills58 building where you can also…

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Why Is The Office Printer Such a Problem? 

January 18, 2023

Ask anyone in your office which piece of technology is the least reliable, most commonly broken, or most loathed and the typical answer will be the office printer. Whether it is jammed, out of ink, or just being stubborn, the office printer is by far the most problematic piece of equipment in the business sphere. …

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authentication

Why Varying Passwords Is So Critical 

January 11, 2023

Gone are the days of each of us having one password for a business login and one for our personal login. In today’s highly digitized world the average computer user has over 100 passwords for both personal and business accounts from client portals to project management software and from Netflix to our own personal email.…

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Make Your Computer Hardware Last Longer 

January 4, 2023

With inflation rising and the threat of a global recession dangling like a sword over our heads, it seems like a good time to review some techniques to keep your expensive computer hardware working a bit longer this year.  With the cost of a server somewhere in the neighborhood of $3,000 or more, and laptops…

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