Lessons to Take From the IRS Email Disappearance Scandal
Conflicts in the IRS began May of 2013. Ex-IRS tax-exempt chief Lois Lerner felt the agency was unjustly scrutinizing applicants seeking tax breaks. Lerner stepped down, and is now in the center of a current scandal regarding a lost two years worth of emails. In June, the IRS told Congress that two years’ worth of […]
Why Two-Step Verification is Important Today & 4 Easy Ways of Producing a Strong Password
In the growing age of technology, almost all financial, business, and personal relations are handled online. What risk does this put our generation in? Are we at risk at all? The answer is, yes. We are constantly at risk of identity or data theft. More and more, stories are emerging of hackers gaining access to […]
Recent Study at Kaspersky Lab Shows Shocking Results! – Is Your Business Informed on Virtual Server Security Threats?
Virtual servers are becoming an on-going tool in the business enterprise world. They take the place of traditional servers that run only one operating system at a time. Instead, virtual servers contain multiple separate “software containers.” Each separate container runs its own operating system. These software containers are the virtual server. Each of the isolated […]
The Negative Impacts of a DoS Attack – Is Any Business Safe?
DoS or denial-of-service attacks are an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. This can happen unintentionally through a flood of traffic to a website causing a crash, or intentionally through a DoS attack. They are one of the most feared attacks on the Internet as they are the […]
Russian Hacker Hacks into the CNET Website to Raise Awareness About Internet Security Threats – Users Must Change Their Passwords Immediately!
CNET, a popular tech news and reviews website with millions of users, has recently been hacked by a Russian hacker known as w0rm or twitter username: “@rev_priv8.” On July 12th, the hacker tweeted a photo of a screenshot depicting the contents from the CNET database, then posted a tweet offering security protection assistance. According to […]
Looking at Moving Your Email to the Cloud? Not so fast – Here’s everything you need to Know Before You Migrate to the Cloud!
One of the biggest buzzwords in the tech-community these days is the “cloud”. In fact, companies of all sizes are looking to the cloud for many of their critical business functions. The reason for this quickly rising momentum with the cloud is to help reduce IT costs and complexities. It wasn’t that long ago when […]
Warning: Microsoft Support Scam on the Rise! Don’t Become an Unsuspecting Victim!
In early 2010, many individuals fell victim to a common scam, wherein hackers disguised themselves as Microsoft support technicians to trick unsuspecting victims into paying a fee to remove malware from their computers. And in the past few weeks, this fake support scam has reappeared with a vengeance! According to Kristen Kliphouse, Microsoft’s Executive of […]
Phishing Attack Warning: E-ZPASS “Overdue Toll” Phishing Email Could Steal Your Credit Card Information!
Do you use E-ZPASS when driving on area freeways? If you do, watch out for a string of phishing attempts using E-ZPass branding designed to lure you into clicking on the link to pay an “overdue toll”. When you pay the “overdue toll”, you’re entering your credit card information into a malicious website for hackers […]
Did You Know It Was Possible to Replace Your PC with an iPad?
Our team of mobility computer experts been helping replace PCs with an iPad for several months now! It’s simple: all of your desktop programs can be published on a private cloud and made accessible for staff to use from an iPad, Android, or Windows tablet. This is extremely convenient for businesses of all types and sizes. […]
Your Business Can Take Advantage of Powerful Software From Many Sources With Careful Patch Management
As your business grows, you want to be able to utilize the most powerful and innovative software that you can access. There is no end of options for you to choose from out there, and it can be difficulty to keep up with just how these applications can affect your system. After all, the world […]