Business

Save Money On Taxes Before the Year Ends

Like most small businesses, you probably have some end-of-year purchases you would like to make for your business. So you can deduct the expenses from 2021 under Section 179. Unfortunately, it is not that simple. Section 179 does not cover ...

You're one of 22,802,117 people pwned in the db8151dd data breach

I get these emails with some regularity. I've kept my same email address for about ten years now and so there are a lot of chances for my records to be exposed. In this latest breach, over 22 million records ...

What is Bitlocker Encryption?

Bitlocker hard drive encryption is the encryption software that Microsoft builds into every version of Windows 10 Professional. It physically encrypts the data on your computer's hard drive so that even if your device is lost or stolen no one ...

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 ...