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Hurricane Recovery 101 – 5 Tips to Best Prepare for a Business Disaster

The 2019 hurricane season is in full swing.  If you haven’t put together a plan to ensure business continuity and protect your staff, now is the time.  Developing a plan offers assurance to both employers and their team members.  Need some help?  Here are five things you can do [...]

Moving to Windows 10? Use the Migration as a Reason to Refresh!

If you haven’t made the move to upgrade your systems to Windows 10, now is the time. With less than five months until support ends for Windows 7, it is important to begin taking inventory of software and hardware assets now to ensure you are ready to go for [...]

Catch-IT: Microsoft to Replace Skype for Business with Teams

Microsoft recently announced it will retire Skype for Business Online in two years (July 2021), to be replaced with Microsoft Teams.  Current Skype users will experience no change in service in the two years leading up to retirement. But starting September 1, 2019, Microsoft will onboard any new Office [...]

Windows 7 to End Support in Six Months

It’s hard to believe that 2019 is halfway over.  Before you know it, it will be back-to-school followed by winter parkas.  As you shift your mind to future planning, we’d like you to think about your computer systems.  Beginning January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer support Windows 7. [...]

Catch-IT: Using Internet Explorer? Time to Move On…

Released back in 1995, Internet Explorer (IE) was once the browser standard.  Installed by default on every Windows computer, IE held about 95% of the market share in the early 2000s.  Today, Microsoft is urging users to stop using Internet Explorer as they are no longer supporting new development [...]

Dark Web Monitoring – Is It Worth It?

The name alone sounds pretty impressive.  A recent service offered by security companies to scan the dark web for your personal information. Since the dark web is a place where lots of cybercriminals conduct business, it makes sense to monitor this, right? First, what is the dark web? Most of [...]

By |2020-12-28T12:13:02-05:00March 25th, 2019|Categories: Advisory, News|Tags: |

Catch-IT: Largest Collection of Breached Data Found – 3 Billion Accounts Compromised

Time to change those passwords again!  Two massive breaches occurred within the last month, totaling approximately 3 billion compromised usernames and passwords. On January 17, the details of the world’s largest online dump of personal data, Collection #1 was published.  This breach contained usernames and passwords relating to 772,904,991 [...]

By |2020-12-28T12:05:30-05:00February 13th, 2019|Categories: Advisory, Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

Catch-IT: Microsoft Releases Emergency Patch for Internet Explorer

Microsoft is urging users of the Internet Explorer to update their browser after finding a major flaw. The browser's memory corruption vulnerability lets attackers remotely execute code as if they were the computer's user, essentially giving them control of the computer, Microsoft wrote in a Wednesday security notice. An [...]

By |2020-12-28T11:31:13-05:00December 21st, 2018|Categories: Advisory, Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

The Passphrase – An Upgrade to your Current Password

It's time to upgrade your password.  Consider the following password Do's and Don'ts and the challenges they present. Let's start with the Don'ts: Password Don’ts Use your login name (ssmith) Use a sequence or repeated characters (“123456” or “abc123”) Reuse for different accounts Share. A secret is no longer [...]

By |2020-12-28T11:06:39-05:00November 20th, 2018|Categories: Advisory, CyberSecurity|

Increase in trade tariffs on Chinese imports – how will this affect tech prices?

By early December, the U.S. is preparing to announce an increase on proposed tariffs for all remaining Chinese imports if talks between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail to ease the trade war, according to a Bloomberg report. If Trump fails to reach an agreement with Xi, not only would there be new rounds [...]

By |2019-01-03T16:48:46-05:00November 6th, 2018|Categories: Advisory|Tags: |
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