One of the lessons of 2020 is that you can’t take things for granted. Among the most painful things that we’ve temporarily lost is the ability to trust those closest to us. It’s not that friends, family and co-workers want to hurt us – they don’t even know that they can. Most COVID transmissions happen…
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Keeping Your Network Safe from Accidental Infection
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How Much Bandwidth Does Your Business Need?
Whether you’re moving to a new office, your contract is up or your business is growing, determining how much bandwidth you need is more stressful than it should be. Overshoot, and you could be stuck in a contract overpaying for years. Go with too little, and you could be revising your contract long before you’d…
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Faster Hackers, New Security Processors, and Yet Another Fake M365 Login Form
We’re all looking for presents online right now, but the bad guys are looking for presence on your network. Here’s what’s happening in the world of cybersecurity in early December. Ransomware gangs are getting faster at encrypting networks. That will make them harder to stop. Years ago, when cyberthieves gained access to your network, they…
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Credentials: Privilege is Perilous on Your Business IT Network
When you’re hurriedly trying to find information on your network or install software on a PC, one thing you don’t want to see is “Access is Denied.” Why wouldn’t an owner, CEO, or senior executive’s credentials have access to everything on your organization’s network? The Principle of Least Privilege It all comes down to privilege. …
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Private Videoconference Eavesdropping (and other new cybersecurity threats. )
While many of us are gearing up for a (smaller than usual) Thanksgiving celebration, hackers are still targeting emails, passwords and even videoconferencing. Here’s what’s happening right now in the world of cybersecurity. Beware of “Site Notifications” – It seems like more and more sites (especially news sites) are presenting readers with a pop-up window…
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Three Questions for Your Line-of-Business Software Provider
If you run a business, there’s a good chance that you are using a line-of-business (LOB) application – software built specifically for businesses in your industry to get things done. If you’re in a big industry, it’s probably made by a billion-dollar software company. If there are only a few thousand companies like yours in…
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How To Spot Fraudulent Emails
There are some very convincing fraudulent emails out there. We’ve talked about several of them – the one that pretended to be a cybersecurity training update, the one that uses a real Microsoft login prompt, and one that uses Google Forms to copy your bank login page are just a few of the best ones currently…
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Business Cybersecurity News: Early November, 2020
New data confirms that ransomware remains a major threat for small and mid-size businesses, and extortion was taken to a new level this month – here’s what’s happening in the cybersecurity world right now. Coveware Q3 2020 Report Details Ransomware Risks Ransomware response company Coveware has released their quarterly ransomware report, which provides a wealth…
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Beware of Fake Bank Account Login Pages
On the day of his assassination, Abraham Lincoln signed the act that created the Secret Service. It wasn’t created to protect presidents, however. It was created to combat counterfeiting – around one-third of all currency in the US was counterfeit in the 1860s. We’ve been fighting counterfeiting ever since; counterfeiters figure out how to make…
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Culture Drives Remote Work Productivity
When COVID-19 hit in March, there was a lot of fast movement by IT teams to get employees working productively from home. Most people felt like the following few weeks would be a very challenging time. But then weeks out of the office started to look more like months and then quarters, and the focus…