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 […]
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 […]
Technology & Business Impact
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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 […]
855-785-2511 Scam
This afternoon one of our technicians was chatting with a legitimate support rep from a well-known vendor. The support rep correctly said that he could not help with the issue […]
Amazon Delivers to Your Car
Amazon just announced an expansion of their Amazon Key program, they will now deliver to your car, assuming that you car is compatible. Currently, compatible 2015 or newer Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, […]
SunTrust Data Breach
SunTrust Bank quietly announced Friday, April 20th, 2018 that a former employee was working with a “criminal third party” and may have passed along information from as many as 1.5 million […]
Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement Program
Apple just announced a battery replacement program for certain 13 inch MacBook Pro’s (non touch bar) manufactured between October 2016 and October 2017. From Apple: Apple has determined that, in […]
Techs: Mac “Critical Error” Loop
We recently came across this error, “A critical software update is required for your Mac.” Attempting to install this update would result in another error, “A critical software update is […]
