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Guidance for Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus

How should employers plan to respond to a Coronavirus outbreak? There are several protocols the CDC has recommended we follow in order to prepare our work environments for such an event. A few include sanitizing workstations regularly, actively encourage sick ...

Don't Lose Sleep; Have a Plan

"How much sleep should I lose over this?" I'd just finished going over some areas of high risk for this customer, some projects that had been delayed, appropriately up until now, due to larger business issues." "None, I only lose ...

Yahoo! Breach Settlement Recap

Yahoo! was hacked multiple times in the 2010's. In the worse case, literally every single account was compromised. If you had opened a Yahoo! account before 2016 your info -- including your password -- is available on the Dark Web. ...

Another IT Provider Hacked

We just finished writing about an IT provider of managed services in Colorado who was hacked, and in turn all or most of their customers were hacked as well. Well, it's another day and this time the story comes from ...

IT Provider & Its Customers Hacked

Krebs on Security writes about a hacking incident in Colorado late in 2019: A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack that is disrupting operations for more than 100 dentistry practices, KrebsOnSecurity ...

How are you at Risk?

It's time to make public a conversation that has been brewing inside the IT and managed services industry for most of the last year but has largely not broken out of those circles. Your managed service provider is now a ...

Securing Data on Insecure Networks

5G is inherently insecure according to a new article by longtime cybersecurity industry expert Bruce Schneier. Schneier is one of the stars of the security field, a longtime activist with nearly a crystal ball for understanding how technology is going ...

Phishing Apple Users

Hackers are beginning to target Apple iPhone users by sending them text messages that appear to be from Apple. The text message have messages indicating that a lost device has been found and use URLs that have Apple product names ...

ToTok: Middle East Spyware

ToTok, a social media app that recently took off in international popularity, is the United Arab Emirates actually spying on your according to a new article from the New York Times. Officially it's supposed to be a secure way to ...

Report: Iran Targeting Industrial Control Systems

Iran is targeting industrial control systems, according to Microsoft security researchers and reported by Ars Technica. The scale of the attempted hacking is incredible, with the Iranian group targeting about 2000 organizations per month. Motivations behind the attacks are not ...