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Top 5 Reasons Why Your Business Should Adopt a BYOD Policy

Bring your own device (BYOD) is an organizational arrangement that permits workers to utilize their own cell phones, tablets, and portable PCs in the work environment. Traditionally, company-owned devices are provided to employees, but a growing number of businesses are opting for a BYOD policy for a variety of reasons. [...]

By |2018-05-16T15:06:20-05:00February 22nd, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: |

Solid State Drives – Longevity tips

While they can make an old SATA based system run faster than it did when newly purchased, the Achilles heal of Solid State Drives (SSDs) is the amount of data that can be written to them. While late model SSDs will last hundreds if not thousands of years there are still [...]

By |2019-07-31T12:41:45-05:00February 22nd, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: , |

BMT Joins Mahwah Regional Chamber of Commerce

BMT is pleased to announce they have joined the Mahwah Regional Chamber of Commerce (MRCC). A recognized voice in the community, the Chamber’s mission consists of advancing the general welfare and prosperity of the greater Mahwah region so that its citizens and its business community may prosper. The BMT team [...]

By |2018-05-16T15:21:28-05:00February 20th, 2017|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Small Businesses, Contact Your Bank. Fraudulent Money Transfers Are On The Rise.

Cyber thieves steal hundreds of millions of dollars a year from the bank accounts of U.S. businesses.  Hijacking business email accounts, cyber criminals will often impersonate company CEOs/CFOs and send bogus emails that lead to fraudulent withdraws from business accounts.  Often dubbed “whale phishing”, this practice is on the rise [...]

By |2018-05-16T15:23:25-05:00February 3rd, 2017|Categories: Advisory, Catch IT|

BMT becomes a Citrix ShareFile Partner

Business Machine Technologies, Inc. is excited to announce we have recently become part of the Citrix ShareFile partner network.  This endeavor allows us to offer our clients an affordable solution to securely store and share data. ShareFile offers a number of security features to comply with the needs of [...]

By |2020-11-12T10:34:12-05:00February 1st, 2017|Categories: BMT Announcement, Partner|

Netgear Routers have critical flaw

Threat: Several Netgear routers are vulnerable to remote hacking. Real World Scenarios: A hacker can take over your router and use it for other nefarious purposes. While compromised the router would most likely perform poorly affecting your Internet Access. Mitigation: Here's what you can do - Check for updates for your router [...]

By |2018-05-16T15:28:32-05:00December 14th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

Nov. 2016 Zero-Day Windows Flaw

Threat: Google security experts have reported a critical security flaw in Adobe and Windows products. The Windows flaw is confirmed by Microsoft not to have a patch yet. A flaw without a patch is called a Zero-Day flaw. Microsoft promises one in the monthly release this Tuesday Nov. 8'th. Google says, [...]

By |2019-07-31T12:56:40-05:00November 3rd, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

Killer USB’s!

Don’t Plug in that strange flash drive! Worse than containing Malware it may be wired to destroy your device We’ve warned about plugging in USB flash drives, from unknown sources, to your devices in before. This is because of the Malware they may contain. But there are also USB drives out [...]

By |2018-11-20T14:11:35-05:00October 31st, 2016|Categories: Catch IT|Tags: , |

Critical Apple iOS Update

Don't open another picture on your iPhone until you apply the latest update to the device. From the security notice accompanying  the 10.1 update - "Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG file may lead to arbitrary code execution"    http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207271 Plain English - Potentially, any image you view on your phone through: Facebook, Snapchat, [...]

By |2018-05-16T15:31:36-05:00October 25th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

Chrome 53 – Update now to fix critical security flaws

Google has released a new version of their popular Chrome browser. The new release, version 53, includes fixes for several critical security flaws. We recommend updating Google Chrome as soon as possible. To do so: Open Google Chrome. Click the 3 vertically-aligned dots under the X in the upper right hand corner. [...]

By |2018-05-16T15:32:49-05:00September 6th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

Back to (security) School?

91% of successful data breaches started with a spear-phishing attack. The Hackers get an A! I'll bet, less than 60% of your co-workers know what a spear-phishing attack is.   (Spear Phishing Definition) Despite all the money your company may have invested in: Firewalls, Antivirus, Antimalware, Antispam, VPN's, 2-Factor Authentication - [...]

By |2018-05-18T09:37:30-05:00August 18th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|Tags: , , , , |

BMT’s Cyber Security Awareness Training Program

Today we are pleased to announce the launching of our: Cyber Security Awareness Training Program Cyber Security Ignorance No one wants to be the person that: clicks on a link that encrypts all the data on the company servers until a hefty ransom is paid, wires thousands of dollars to a [...]

By |2018-05-18T09:39:07-05:00August 18th, 2016|Categories: BMT Announcement, CyberSecurity|Tags: , , , |
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