As you have likely heard, this past Friday a flood of ransomware hit hundreds of companies around the world. The victims all had something in common: a key piece of network management and remote control software developed by U.S. technology firm Kaseya. We wanted to reassure you we were not one of the [...]
Watch What You're Doing During Your Next Workout! Welcome to the world of patching your Peloton Bike. Security firm McAfee says it recently found a security vulnerability in the Peloton Bike + that could allow hackers to access its microphone and camera by installing malware in a USB port. [...]
Attacks Erase Western Digital Network-Attached Storage Drives Western Digital has determined that some My Book Live devices are being compromised by malicious software. In some cases, this compromise has led to a factory reset that appears to erase all data on the device. According to Western Digital, attackers directly [...]
*Microsoft recently announced Windows 11 is due out later in 2021 and will be delivered over several months. The rollout of the upgrade to Windows 10 devices already in use today will begin in 2022 through the first half of that year. Microsoft announced the launch date of Windows [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has recently warned that scammers are now posing as construction companies in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. BEC scammers use various tactics (including social engineering and phishing) to compromise or impersonate business email accounts with the end goal of redirecting pending or future payments to bank [...]
Now more than ever, adopting everyday practices to secure your workstation should be a priority. Users should sign out of workstations when finished with their work day and reboot computers at the end of the work week. Our tech support team often finds a computer reboot to be the [...]
Recent COVID-19 outbreaks in Asia could contribute to the delay in the global chip shortage A recent wave of Covid-19 in Asia is creating new bottlenecks in the global supply chain, threatening to push up prices and weigh on the post-pandemic recovery. An outbreak at one of the world’s [...]
Amazon's Sidewalk Feature Will Share Your Internet Connection Starting June 8 - Here's How to Opt-Out. Launching June 8 on Echo speakers, Ring products, Tile trackers and more, Amazon's low-bandwidth internet-of-things network lets your smart home stretch beyond Wi-Fi range. Sidewalk works by having users of these products share a [...]
Following Ubiquiti’s security incident and its subsequent recommendation to change your router/admin password and enable multi-factor authentication (2FA), we thought this would be a good opportunity to remind you of the importance of changing passwords regularly, especially those not used frequently and often forgotten. Wireless routers are an easy gateway [...]
A brand new version of Microsoft Office will be available to Mac and PC users later this year. Office 2021 will be available to current Office 365 (now known as Microsoft 365) subscribers via free update, or available for a one-time purchase for those who don’t want the subscription [...]
Four exploits found in Microsoft’s Exchange Server software have reportedly led to over 30,000 US governmental and commercial organizations having their emails hacked, according to a report by KrebsOnSecurity. Patches have been released by Microsoft, but security experts say that the detection and cleanup process will be a massive effort for [...]
“Silver Sparrow” has infected nearly 30,000 Macs worldwide—and has been dubbed a “reasonably serious threat” by researchers at Red Canary, but those same security experts say they still aren’t exactly sure what the virus plans to do. It’s a unique threat, in that the malware runs an hourly check to a control [...]
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