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It’s National Password Day, Let’s Celebrate!

How do you create a password that can't be cracked in 7.5 million years? Which are the most common mistakes while creating passwords?  In honor of National Password Day, we have come up with some useful videos, tips and promos - all to help you keep your online accounts [...]

Announcing BMT’s New Video Series – 2-Minute Tuesday

Welcome to our new video series, 2-Minute Tuesday!  Every Tuesday we will feature a new video clip - this time-saving tip, trick or best practice is designed to keep you learning something new about Microsoft 365 each week. This Tuesday we highlight how to schedule a Microsoft Teams Meeting [...]

Importance of Changing Forgotten Passwords

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 [...]

Office 2021 Coming Soon, Available for Windows and Mac

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 [...]

Microsoft Releases Updates for Exploits Found in Exchange Server Software

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 [...]

Road Forward Resources: SupportIT

Free Resources to Assist Small Businesses as we Continue Down the Road Through Recovery and Beyond New Year, New Beginnings! As many businesses continue to change and adapt to this ever-evolving environment, we are providing resources to help you work. Each week, we will focus on a different area, [...]

30,000 Macs infected with new Silver Sparrow malware

“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 [...]

Road Forward Resources: SecureIT

Free Resources to Assist Small Businesses as we Continue Down the Road Through Recovery and Beyond New Year, New Beginnings! As many businesses continue to change and adapt to this ever-evolving environment, we are providing resources to help you work. Each week, we will focus on a different area, [...]

BMT Named to MSP 500 for Security Expertise

Business Machine Technologies (BMT) is excited to announce that CRN, a brand of the Channel Company, has named BMT to its 2021 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Security 100 category.  This annual list identifies top North American solution providers who have innovative approaches to Managed Services [...]

LastPass Free Limits Device Usage

We’ve been recommending LastPass as a password manager for years now. It is highly rated and the import premium security features such as 2-Factor Authentication support & location awareness have always been free. However LastPass just released news on some important changes, effective March 16, LastPass Free users will [...]

Road Forward Resources: RemoteIT

Free Resources to Assist Small Businesses as we Continue Down the Road Through Recovery and Beyond New Year, New Beginnings! As many businesses continue to change and adapt to this ever-evolving environment, we are providing resources to help you work. Each week, we will focus on a different area, [...]

COMB: Over 3.2 Billion Unique Email and Password Combinations Leaked

More bad news: your password has likely been leaked online.  This recently announced breach, dubbed “Compilation of Many Breaches'' (COMB), doesn’t appear to be a new breach; rather, as the name suggests, it’s a compilation of multiple breaches.  Unique to this breach, the mammoth compilation of hacked data was [...]

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