Ransomware attacks with Remote Access Tools You may have seen in the press that there are continuing Ransomware attacks and there is a recurring theme, in particular with Remote Access and Ransomware. Used to be that attackers encrypted your information, relying on...
Remote Working for small to medium to large businesses, even in ordinary times, overseeing a remote workforce can be a challenge for multiple reasons – ensuring availability of all necessary tools, managing remote endpoints and having a fail-safe contingency plan....
Zoom, depending on what you read, has gone from a reported 10 million users to over 350 million worldwide in a matter of weeks. It’s little surprise that it has had its share of issues and vulnerabilities. This article discussed video conference security and how you...
Denial Of Service Attacks Or DOS or Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks. These aren't reported on that often in the media, but they are still a major threat to a business, in particular one that relies on it being online and available to its customers. We...
Image copyright Oli Scarff Cyber-security experts are urging Windows 7 users to upgrade their operating system. Microsoft is going to stop supporting Windows 7 from Tuesday so that it can focus on “newer technologies”. As a result, Windows 7 users will no longer receive the all-important security updates and patches that keep their machines safe.…
Today Microsoft released several patches to address critical vulnerabilities. A number of these were deemed critical enough to warrant the US Department of Homeland Security to issue an Emergency Directive ordering all Federal agencies to patch these vulnerabilities...
We shared an article about this in 2018, and it is still surprising to see even today that the same easy to guess passwords are used. Now 2020 is upon us, we take a look again at these reports. A recently released document by Nord revealed what they have seen as users...
January 14th 2020 will be a normal business day of course to most of us, but in the world of IT Windows 7 will reach the end of its Extended Support. Essentially what this means is that Microsoft will no longer produce security updates. For a business, although the...
Reusing passwords from one account or service to another Password Management and Password Reuse. In the press, we see quite regularly breaches happening when a user doesn't have Password Management and Password Reuses the same password on one service as well as...
Security Tips for Users and Keeping Secure Technology moves on at a rapid pace, and the attacks and hacks are ever increasing also. It seems not in the so dim and distant past we were on dialup, using a desktop computer, tying up the home phone line for Internet...
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