November 18, 2019 On November 18th NPR's, All Things Considered reported on a rapidly growing scam targeting businesses called Business Email Compromise (BEC). The statistics are staggering. The FBI estimates that in 2016 $316 million was stolen by way of a BEC scam, $676 million in...
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. By implementing our Managed IT Services, companies maximize their cyber security protections. There are multiple components to creating and maintaining a secure business network. Each component of your network should be actively managed to be effective. Some components include: Data...
Recently UK based, National Cyber Security Centre offered five questions business leaders should ponder when thinking about IT security for their business: 1. How do we defend our organization against phishing attacks? 2. What do we do to control the use of our privileged IT accounts? 3. How...
September 2, 2019 The Federal Communications Commission published a list of cyber security tips for small businesses. Here are critical tips they recommend with my thoughts and suggestions. “Train employees in security principles” In our era of computing devices embedded into almost all facets of life, it’s...
The FBI has a dedicated team solely focused on investigating cyber security attacks. The type of attack is wide ranging; either terrorist in nature, international or corporate espionage, data theft or ransomware. Furthermore, there are units within this team that focus on these different kinds...
Is the phrase brute-force attack new to you? I hope so. Unless you’re an IT professional or have been a victim of hacking or had your files stolen you likely have never heard the term. Unfortunately, the technology it refers to is very common and available. It...
As a Dell Partner, we received a warning from Dell recently regarding an improvement in the sophistication of fake or third party entities, claiming to be part of Dell’s technical telephone support group. Obviously, the goal of the fraud is to extract a payment for...
May 2019 Every day, businesses, private organizations and even government agencies fall victim to cyber-criminals and ransomware attacks.in May 2019, the City of Baltimore's budget office estimated it will cost $18.2 million dollars to restore its systems and services which were locked by ransomware. In April...