We started protecting you from ransomware in 2013 and yet recently in the news they make it sound like it’s something new that businesses should be addressing. Frustrating. We’re so low key about this that you might not even know what ransomware is. It’s a criminal activity whereby the bad […]
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In the news yesterday we learned some confusing information about the stolen passwords from Yahoo. No one under 35 years of age had their password stolen 500 Million passwords stolen The account hack took place in 2014 The data is for sale at a very low price These things all […]
Spam filters will only ever catch so much. Sometimes a bad email gets through because the writer is very smart. I received such an email over the weekend. Here it is: This email is a phishing attempt. It got through because it is so simple and so on target. I […]
First a bit of news: We recently completed the necessary requirements for achieving our cloud certification with Microsoft. It required us to submit 3 case studies and have over 150 seats of successful installations plus customer references to verify it all. The benefit to this is that we now have […]
We’re adding several layers of protection to your network. Ransomware is the infection, that isn’t an infection, that is never going to go away. It is and will be the single biggest threat to business from now on. Ransomware uses social engineering to trick you into opening a document, click […]
Be on the Lookout for Scams We recently received two calls on the same day from people with notices that demanded money from them on the screen. One was a desktop computer. They wanted to remote in and take care of a “security issue”. Of course they themselves were the […]
When I hear the phrase “Internet of Things” my first thought is “what a stupid name” but I’m going to have to get over it because it appears that this naming convention for devices connected to the Internet is here to stay. By devices I means things like the Nest […]
SuperFish, Remembering Passwords, Securing Remote Access and SSL certificates are the four things that have been occupying our brains for the last couple of weeks and we’ve reached some conclusions that I want to tell you about. SuperFish: SuperFish is an application that Lenovo installs on their consumer branded computers. […]
By now you have probably received a notice from your technician that they need to do an emergency schannel update to your server. It needs to be applied to any server that has a presence on the Internet first. Other servers are less critical but eventually all will need to […]