Facebook Hacked
Bloomberg reports that Facebook has been hacked, again. Insttake: This won’t seriously affect the breached users. However, it continues to show that Facebook has been more focused on growth than […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
