Is your Netflix account safe?
With more than 148 million subscribers globally, Netflix is one of the most popular streaming services. Like anything else, where people and money are, criminals are as well. Hacking into your Netflix account allows thieves access to your credentials and personal...
What is DNS Protection and why is it important?
DNS protection provides an additional layer of protection between an employee and the internet by blacklisting dangerous sites and filtering out unwanted content. By using secure DNS servers both at home and at work, employees can avoid unnecessary risks and the...
How to avoid malicious phone apps and limit the information they collect about you.
If you are like me, your cell phone is a part of your identity. It is the first thing you reach for when you wake up and the last thing you check when you go to sleep. You check the weather, the latest sports scores, lookup movie times, order a ride share, get the...
Do You Use the Same Password for Multiple Sites? Here’s Why That’s a Bad Idea
By Michael McCool Do you currently use a password manager? If not, you are probably reusing the same password or variations of the same password for every site you visit. This is a really bad idea. It’s not really a matter of if one of the sites you visit will be...
Municipalities and Small Businesses Take Notice: Cybercriminals are After You
Two municipalities were hit by ransomware last month and forced to pay approximately $600,000 each to regain access to city email and computer systems. One city, Riviera Beach, Florida, has roughly the same size population as the Kirkwood-Des Peres area where our...
Joe’s Musings: Dattocon, FBI’s Most Wanted Hacker, ex-CEO of billion dollar company, a party on the U.S.S. Midway, and Snoop Dogg
A personal experience: Like most industries, the IT world has its fair share of conventions. Most of them are the same; pretty boring, full of your typical IT geeks and the vendors catering to them. Think of Comic Con, but with computers instead of comic books. Last...
Start using two factor authentication – like yesterday
Two-factor authentication is an authentication mechanism to double check that your identity is legitimate. Not a week goes by that we don’t receive a frantic phone call from someone with a compromised account. A bad actor has cracked their email password and sent out thousands of spam emails. Each one of these phone calls could have been avoid if they would have enabled two-factor authentication for their account.
Critical Windows Security Update!
Earlier this week Microsoft released fixes for a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services that affects some older version of Windows and Windows Server. So, why should I care? Well, if you have a Windows 7 or heaven forbid a Windows XP computer, you need to worry. If your company runs a Windows 2008 Server or for some reason still a Windows 2003 Server, you better take this warning serious.
Windows Server 2008 R2 End of Life
On January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer offer support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, meaning they will no longer release additional security patches and updates. If your business runs off Windows 2008 you have some serious choices to make. Do Nothing -...
Bomb threats shutting down business via email
If you are like me, one of the first things you do when you sit down at your desk each morning is sift through your new email. Let's say you come across the following email : My man carried a bomb (Hexogen) into the building where your company is located. It is...