Cloud First – Up in Smoke Businesses the past few years have been moving more and more to the cloud for much of their infrastructure by moving workloads and apps (applications) to the cloud. However, that’s not necessarily the right or…
Cloud First – Up in Smoke Businesses the past few years have been moving more and more to the cloud for much of their infrastructure by moving workloads and apps (applications) to the cloud. However, that’s not necessarily the right or…
Security is very important and to say breaches are detrimental to any business is a simple understatement. Not only the financial costs involved to resolve the issue, a damaged reputation is difficult to overcome — and customer trust is tough…
Ransomware -What You Need To Know We are compiling a new post regarding details of a VERY NASTY little piece of Malware / Virus / Ransomware called Locky Ransomware. We first alerted everyone of this malicious program on March 11,…
Another new ransomware has been detected, and though its name is cute, this is no joke. The not so fun part of this new ransomware will encrypt almost every commonly used file type, and targets not only your pc…
What is a data breach? So what is a data breach? Simply put, a data breach is when an individual’s name plus a Social Security number, driver’s license number, medical record or financial record (credit/debit cards included) is exposed because of a…
How to Prevent Spear Phishing and Phishing Scams Most of us have heard of email phishing (pronounced fishing), but have you heard of spear phishing? Maybe not, but this is the latest twist on email, and social media phishing scam. Spear…
Linux & Mac Vulnerabilities Security experts discovered a flaw in the widely used Unix Bash shell, leaving Linux machines, Mac OS X machines, firewalls, routers, and many more devices vulnerable to attack. The vulnerability, called “Shellshock”, apparently has been in the BASH…
An alarming trend of high profile security breaches seems to be happening almost daily. So what should you do? Well if you are the Owner, CEO or Executive of a business, you need to pay attention to this trend. You…
Protect and Secure I.P. So you think you are safe when collecting an ex-employee’s mobile phone or computer? Maybe not…Many businesses leave themselves open to possible vulnerabilities because they don’t control cloud-based accounts. All too often this is not something…
Over the past few days you may have heard of a problem that maybe affecting as few as 17% or much as 67% of the internet. A much talked about problem, but still confusing issue called Heartbleed. So what is Heartbleed…