Sci-fi movies from as recent as 10 years ago seem startlingly familiar in today’s world as we close the gap between fiction and reality. Thanks to evolving technologies, new industries are being created that have never before been seen in human history. As the demand...
It is virtually impossible in today’s world to have a company that doesn’t deal with the internet in some way. And everyone, from a small freelance artisan to the largest corporation, likely uses a mobile device to help their business. Though for the small one-person...
Security experts will tell you that the last line of defense against cyber attack, especially through email, is the human being. No matter how good your systems are, if someone clicks on the wrong link at the wrong time, it's game over. A company called...
Today's news of the Petya cyber attack in the Ukraine and Europe was a predictable follow-up to the WannaCry cryptoware outbreak from earlier this year. As security vendor Palo Alto notes, the method used by Petya is exactly the same as WannaCry, and can be...
The outbreak of WannaCry (a.k.a. WannaCrypt or WCry) over the past few days is still making global headlines. In the media rush to cover the story, there has been a lot of mis-information being repeated. For example, some people believe that if...
The news media has made "WannaCry" a household name over the weekend, to the joy and fear of I.T. pros everywhere. On one hand, techies have a great opportunity to talk about managing risks and presenting their lovely solutions! On the other...
Last month we posted an article about how patching your computers is difficult and cumbersome, but also extremely important. It didn't take long for the news to catch up with us. Today's example of just how quickly things go bad when you aren't keeping up...
A couple of our Office 365 customers are seeing a sudden increase of phishing emails lately. These emails appear to come from Microsoft and look very legitimate, but contain links to malicious websites. The trend began in the past couple of weeks, and...
We're seeing more notices from the last of our providers who 'supported' Windows XP and Server 2003 that the clock has struck midnight for those aging systems. This is of course not a surprise - we've heard and even echoed these warnings for years - but...
Adding an attachment to an email in earlier versions of Outlook used to be so terrible, that I would always either open the folder containing the file I want to send and do drag & drop into a new message, or just right-click on the file and choose Send To ->...
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