This month, Harbor is releasing several blog posts related specifically to cyber security. Security is everyone’s responsibility! At Harbor, security is a huge part of our business, we take loads of precautions on the back end that you will never see, but there are always precautions that you, the […]
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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month! This month, Harbor will be releasing several blog posts related specifically to cyber security. Security is everyone’s responsibility! At Harbor, security is a huge part of our business, we take loads of precautions on the back end that you will never see, […]
This week we’ve been working with the parents, of an employee, of a client. Do we usually do this? No. But when something extraordinary presents itself and we can help we will. Long story short. They were scammed, the home computer was infected (a MAC, btw) and their identify was […]
I realize how that subject line reads so just so no one panics these are two separate topics completely unrelated. Equus: While travelling recently in California I had the pleasure of taking my Third Tier team to be the speakers for the October SMBTechFest and since I was in the […]
Credit card processing organizations and banks are beginning to demand a dedicated PC that resides on a separate network from the rest of your computers in order to process a credit card transaction or access online banking. We have seen two instances of this so far and based upon the […]
It seems like every time you browse the news headlines these days there’s another story about a corporation being hacked and losing their bank account, customers credit card accounts or identity. These kinds of loses are all perpetrated by people external to your organization. But last week, security researchers uncovered […]
We have fixed a price gouging issue. It wasn’t that long ago that we were able to obtain SSL certificates from GoDaddy at a very reasonable price for a basic certificate to protect remote access to the websites hosted on your servers. We turned to GoDaddy to supply these after […]
It’s me again to remind you of the dangers of online banking for businesses. I feel like I’m starting to sound like a scratched CD (also know as a broken record) but this is very important. Recall from my last post on this topic that FDIC insurance does not protect […]
Online services are inherently insecure because they are applications that you are sharing with others on the same server. In this information age, your information is a valuable commodity. Information about where you vacation, where you live, the names and ages of your family members is a marketing goldmine and […]
This article might sound very technical to most of you but I hope that you will bear with me and read it through because the concepts are very important. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/ Basically, the “hackers” liked his Twitter handle, @mat. So they found his email address mat@gmail.com, and went to Gmail to […]