We see it all the time in countless T.V. shows and movies; a shady, hoody and jeans wearing character intensely types away on a keyboard for a few seconds, hits Enter, and up pops a schematic of the city’s transportation system on the screen. From here, the hacker changes traffic lights, turns off the water supply, and releases all the prisoners from cell block six in the state penitentiary.

Most of the time, this poorly conceived or misrepresented tech babble serves as a device to further the fictional story being told. But the recent Colonial Pipeline hack was a painful reminder of the devastating impact cybercrime can have on our lives...

If you like to keep your email neatly organized, here's a cool little trick.

Outlook can automatically file your email for you. It's then up to you to read them in order of importance – or interest.

• Create a folder by hitting Ctrl + Shift + E
• Automate filing into the folder
• Right-click the email and click "Rules"
• Choose "Always move messages from"
• And select your new folder

Over the last year, you might have noticed that we have been using VNET.US in some of our links and marketing materials. Over the remainder of this year, we intend to implement this truncated domain name where we currently use VELOCITYNETWORK.NET. Our goal is to make it easier for our customers and employees who frequently type this 19 character string for email, authentication, and website links.

In this age of bad actors on the internet, we feel that we must let you know that when you begin to see the VNET.US domain name in a link, for example, in this email, it is a legitimate address from your trusted MSP, VNET.

We'll update you as we progress!