The Easiest Cons
A university just paid $12m to a fraudster. Prevention would have been easy.
15 Minutes
There is nothing more valuable that any of us have than time. 15 minutes can be a lot, it can also be life changing, for us and for others.
Fall Windows Update Stopped
Following "isolated" reports of users' files being completely erased during upgrades Microsoft announced a "pause" of the Windows 2018 Fall Update. Microsoft has gone so far as saying that if you have a copy of the upgrade already, you should delete ...
WiFi Gets New Name
Starting with the next generation of WiFi devices, WiFi will finally have a comprehensible naming scheme. In the past, different versions of wifi went by various letters, that were hard to keep track of even if you were in the industry. ...
Old Computer Donations
A local residential Knoxville IT firm is leading an effort to collect used but working computers to give to the recently and near homeless. "Techies Give Back" is the brain child of Charlie Harbin, of TechNav, a local traveling IT ...
Knox County Hacked
The News Sentinel is reporting that Knox County computer systems were breached the night of the primary. It was a two stage attack, complete with with a distraction. Here is the short version. First, the website to report election results ...
Hard Drive Quarterly Report
Consumer backup provider Backblaze has released their quarterly hard drive performance report. This report is always notable because it is the largest ongoing study across a variety of non-enterprise hard drives. In other words: it measures what matters. The #1 ...
Technology & Business Impact
At JM Addington we're all about making existing businesses better at what they do.
Managed Services Tools Price Increase
Prices for managed services providers are increasing - that ultimately means higher prices for their customers.
Atlanta Ransomeware Recovery: $2.6m
ZDNet reports that Atlanta budgeted approximately $2.6 million to recover from their ransomeware incident earlier this year. This is a small figure as far as ransomeware recovery goes. It excludes the cost of lost productivity, not just city employees but ...
