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The latest on cyber security, computer support and small business IT from one of New Jersey and New York’s top managed IT service providers.From the Microsoft Security Blog – the Cleverest Phishing Techniques of 2019
Phishing scams have become ubiquitous. Educate your users. They should be wary of emails that appear to come from a team member asking them to send money, or that appear to come from a vendor asking them to click and link and enter a password. Here are some other...
We Protect Our Customers’ Systems by Protecting Our Own
We are seeing more and more stories like this one about IT providers getting hacked, which leads to their customers getting hacked. This is generally due to security vulnerabilities in the networks of many managed IT service providers, as well as poor security...
How to Maintain Your NAS
A network-attached storage device (or "NAS") is a great option for fast, secure local storage for customers that don't have server computers. However, it's important to properly maintain your NAS and make sure it is stable and secure from hackers. My storage device...
Network Solutions | Important Security Information
If you host your domain registration, DNS or web site with Network Solutions, you should change your password immediately. Source: Network Solutions | Important Security Information This breach also illustrates why it's important to use different passwords for...
What is My Computer’s Name or Host Name?
Often a customer asks us for assistance with a computer, but if they more than one computer, we may need to identify which one they'd like remote assistance with. In order to identify which computer we are supposed to remote into, we'll sometimes ask the customer to...
How to Prevent Employee Burnout
Unemployment has been on a steady downward trend for the past ten years, making keeping good employees a greater challenge than ever. Employee burnout is an important issue to address to ensure that your employees remain productive and happy. This article from our...
Email Security Basics for Your Business or NonProfit
Here's an article that explains the basics of enterprise-class email security in plain English. Business-class email security should include: advanced phishing protection to protect against impostor email threats; spam and malware filtering; and URL screening to...
Why every business needs a firewall – Phoenix Business Journal
This article spells out in plain English why every business needs a serious firewall. Here are two important takeaways from this article: 1. "60 percent of small businesses don’t survive a cyberattack." 2. "The firewall is not a 'set it and forget it' security system....
Five Reasons Why you Need to Test Your Back-Up Regularly
Trying to manage your own data backup using a "do it yourself" consumer backup service such as Carbonite or Mozy? If you have a backup, but you're not test-restoring at least once per month, then you don’t really have a backup. Here are five reasons why it's so...
Business Email Compromise Attempts Are a Big Problem
According to this article on the Health IT Security web site, business email compromise attempts doubled in 2018. Business email compromise occurs when a hacker attempts to impersonate an employee (usually an executive) in order to request money be transferred from...
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