IRS Phishing Emails for Christmas
Every year massive fraud is committed around taxes. A lot of the fraud involves stealing your identity, filing a fake return on your behalf that shows a refund and then collecting that refund on ...
Firewall Bug Could Hit East TN Hard
One of the world's biggest security vendors had hidden backdoors in their products that would allow virtually anyone to take over the firewall. Your firewall is the security appliance that is supposed to separate your internal, secure, network from the ...
Video Game Bugs & Your Business
One of the world's biggest video game companies has had two incredibly major bugs this month and it can kill your organization's security if you don't have the right policies in place. Most organizations we bring on initially have a ...
The Ticking Bomb Email
One of the newest ways to get past email defenses is getting the least amount of attention: the changing link. Here's how it works: The Bad Guy emails one of your employees an email "from" your CEO/President whatever with a ...
A Peak Into Ransomeware Retirement
Earlier this week ZDNet profiled an incredible exit strategy of one of the largest Ransomware operators of the last 12 months, GandCrab. Setting aside irony, the professionalism of the operation should catch the attention of any business owner. The operators ...
Baltimore Crippled by Ransomware
The city services of Baltimore, MD ground to a halt two weeks ago after a ransomware attack. It's expected that it will take months for them to finish rebuilding their servers. We're not going to summarize the article here, instead, ...
Goodbye Windows 7, Hello Ransomware
For the last several years ransomware has been on the rise. 2018 was a huge year for ransomware, more than doubling. It also was the first year we saw small and medium businesses actively being targeted. In the past, large ...
The Tariffs are Here: Now What?
60 seconds after midnight US tariffs on thousands of Chinese products more than doubled. How is this going to affect your business? Costs are going to go up across the board. The supply chains of virtually every industry cross through ...
Big Box Tech Support Scams
Last week The Register reported on some big box stores taking advantage of tech-ignorant consumers.
Win10 Fall '18 Update "Ready"
Microsoft is re-announcing that the last major update to Windows 10 is ready for mass use.
