Website Hacked: You’re the Target
Politico’s Cybersecurity Newsletter from October 10th, 2018 references a report on hacking that has two golden nuggets in it.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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.
