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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...

You may have seen our article a few months ago regarding Windows Microsoft's plans to end support for Windows 7 on January 14th, 2020. This means that security and stability updates will no longer be available for Windows 7 after this time. We're now only four months...

This is a very informative article from our partner Webroot on how to keep your kids cyber-secure at school. Source: Cybersecurity in Schools: What Families Need to Know | Webroot

Have you shared your cell phone number on any web sites? Once it's publicly available, your cell phone number is no longer secure. So you need to stop using SMS authentication for your logins. Instead, consider using an authenticator app like Google Authenticator or...

Have you downloaded FaceApp recently? The Facebook app has become popular for showing users what they will look like as they age. It was recently exposed for its troubling privacy policy. Now it turns out it collects lists of each user's Facebook friends. As the...

We hear a lot about cyber security as it relates to servers and cloud data storage; but one of the most neglected areas of cyber security is web site security. Too often, after paying to have a great web site designed and uploaded, a company will ignore the ongoing...

As we've mentioned before, after January 14th, 2020, Microsoft it will no longer support Windows 7. Most of our customers are already using Windows 10, but we've heard concerns from some customers who are not happy about the Windows 7 expiration. Many have been...

A recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute revealed that nearly 70% of small businesses experience cyber attacks. While SMBs increasingly face the same cybersecurity risks as larger companies, only 28 percent rate their ability to mitigate threats,...