Moving is one of the most stressful activities a business can go through. But, it doesn’t have to be if you learn how to avoid these 3 budget-busting blunders: Blunder #1 — Asking Your Employees To Move Their Own Computer Equipment Asking your staff to disconnect, move and reconnect computers, phones, etc. will frustrate them and you’ll only end up with […]
Thinking about separating your email system from your onsite server configuration? Smart move! Our advice: go with Microsoft Office 365 (MSO365) over any third party Hosted Exchange Provider you find. Microsoft Office 365 is hard to beat, not only on price but on features. Here’s 12 reasons why MSO365 should be part of your business […]
Our Labor Day holiday was shattered by the news that a series of data breaches and hacks occurred stealing personal and financial information. Even Hollywood is feeling the pain as nude celebrity photos started showing up on the internet followed by the news that credit and debit card information were stolen from Home Depot systems. […]
We’ve all heard about tech support scams from cyber-criminals based in other countries. However, a recent article from Malwarebytes mentions that U.S. based criminals are getting into the act. Sometimes they cold-call their victims; other times they’ll use ads with pop-ups, or they’ll send emails to bring victims to their site. How they go about […]
A recent post in SC Magazine mentioned an incident on the University of Missouri-Kansas City where a student was harassing a faculty member with threatening emails. The student plead guilty and is facing jail time. Thankfully, most states have enacted laws that include harassment through the internet. While this is a source of comfort, it […]
CSO reports that a recent study by Eurecom found 38 vulnerabilities in firmware used by companies that manufacture a variety of internet-connected consumer products that leave the devices vulnerable to hackers due to poor encryption and backdoors left open by developers. By correlating the findings in the 693 firmware images studied, researchers were able to […]
Every day, I review security announcements on the internet, and what I’m seeing lately is a lot of alerts for fake Android apps. A simple Google search gives me a disturbing 145,000 results. The latest threat that I picked up and passed on to my social media connections is called SandroRat. SandroRat is a variant […]
In past articles, we’ve written extensively about security. We even had a post that warned of old office copiers that were returned to leasing companies where they were refurbished and leased to other companies without wiping out the old data on the hard drive. While perusing the security forums last week, I came across a […]
This question seems to come up every so often, usually from people whose systems were recently infected by the latest exploit. They feel that since they were infected even though they had an anti-virus (AV) program on their PC, the AV was not helping them and therefore not necessary. They are wrong. It is not reasonable […]
Last week as I was having my morning tea before going to work, I received an email on my smartphone from the “E-ZPass Customer Service Center” informing me that I have not paid an outstanding invoice. The email went on to say that I apparently drove on a toll road and did not pay the […]
