Category: General IT News

Cybersecurity cannot be an after thought. Ransomware attacks costs money. Don’t let a malicious e-mail take your business down. Being proactive about security is your key to your business’ success … we can take you there.#cybersecurity

This e-mail example contained a malicious PDF file which contained ransomware. With our advanced e-mail security, we can help mitigate these threats by adding layered protection guards against targeted attacks from ransomware, and other zero-day malware leveraging machine learning, file and URL analysis, and exploit detection engines. Don’t be a victim of ransomware! Being proactive […]

We ran into an interesting case this month relating to a PayPal account and a user being permanently banned. A couple weeks prior, the client noticed some strange charges on their account. They disputed these PayPal specific charges with their credit card company. Because of these credit card charge disputes, PayPal chose to permanently ban […]

The outage caused chaos as millions of children and teachers attempted to start the school year online. Updates listed on the link below. Read more here

Consider this your umpteenth reminder that for as much as Google keeps improving or promising it’s improved the company’s proprietary app marketplace, sketchy app developers will never stop coming and never stop trying to sneak into the Google Play Store — past all the company’s defenses — to put its apps into the mix and […]

Scammers posing as charitable organizations have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic as cybercriminal experts say there has been a 6,000% increase in spoof emails during the outbreak. CBS Minnesota’s Erin Hassanzadeh reports.

Procurement delays on some equipment Two Important Factors in these supply-chain: Coronavirus: We are continuing to monitor the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak with a focus on ensuring the health and safety of our colleagues as well as continuing to provide exceptional service to our customers. While this is a fluid situation, we are doing everything […]

Clearview AI Here is an amazing article about an artificial intelligence startup business. There software is scraping the internet and stockpiling billions of our photos along with the location history. With this enormous database, this is where the “magic” begins. Watch the video for very eye opening security concerns. “By posting your personal and private […]

Netflix will now let you disable its awful autoplaying feature Netflix customers have complained for years about the frustrating and annoying autoplay preview feature that occurs on its homepage. Today, the company announced that subscribers can finally disable autoplay functionality. People can choose to disable autoplay in two different formats: one that automatically starts the […]

We depend on our devices so much with blind trust in how accurate they are. This man shows how susceptible the technology is and the amount of data these companies are monitoring. Click HERE to read article.

Victims are targeted, either the entity responsible for payroll changes or individual employees, with a phishing e-mail requesting updates to their account. The e-mail will appear to be a legitimate request for changes in the paycheck remittance financial location. Victims may be unaware changes are made to their accounts until they do not receive their […]

October 5, 2018 After a lot of research, late nights (and headaches), I have discovered the answer to this problem.  After a Microsoft Office 365 back-end update, the system is causing duplicate e-mails in user mailboxes. They are expected to provide us a fix/update on Tuesday 10/09/2018 8:00 pm UTC.

October 2, 2018 Scam Alert: this is not Apple related but there is a scam going on right now. This is a telephone call claiming your Apple ID has been compromised and they are “Apple”. The caller ID will appear as Apple, Inc. Hang up the call. Apple will never call you.    The call originates […]

August 21, 2018 FBI Warning about “Virtual Kidnapping”. The scheme only works when someone answers the phone and is so terrified by the thought of their loved one in danger that they believe the scam. The victim then gives the scammers information to work with. The scammers attempt to keep victims on the phone to […]

May 25, 2018 Security Warning: The FBI recommends any owner of small office and home office routers power cycle (reboot) the devices. Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide. The actors used VPNFilter malware to target small office and home office routers. The malware […]

April 20, 2018 After you sign into your Yahoo/AOL/Verizon/Oath account, you will need to accept their new terms and conditions.  This is relating to how they collect your personal information.  Using “free” accounts is just not worth losing your personal information. How we collect and use data. We’ve updated some of the ways we collect […]

February 10, 2018 In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and in the interests of public safety, Lenovo is voluntarily recalling some ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th Generation laptops. Lenovo has determined that a limited number of such laptops may have an unfastened screw that could damage the laptop’s battery causing overheating, potentially […]

January 30, 2018 Our USA Distributors are open for Chinese New Years but if any products need to be custom ordered from China, there could be a delay. The 2018 Chinese New Year is Feb 16th, 2018.  Our China Manufacture facilities will be closed in observances of the Chinese New Year holiday Feb 15th – […]

January 29, 2018 For all our clients on our Pro-Active Services and Security Platform, we have been pushing out updates these vulnerabilities which include patching for Meltdown and the Spectre variant 1.  Spectre variant 2 requires additional on-site work and a further discussion.  Microsoft has halted any further Intel updates through the latest Microsoft patch […]