Beware of Fake Corona Virus Phishing Attack Email Bad actors are now using the global threat of corona virus and associated panic to steal information and infect targets with ransomware. They are doing this by sending phishing emails that appear to be from the World Health Organization and claim to have information about how to […]
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Feb
Feb
Multi Factor Authentication According to a recent study by the SANS institute up to 99.9% of attacks can be blocked with multi-factor authentication. If your organization hasn’t already put some form of MFA in place to protect your client data, you’re behind the times. Here’s why MFA is so important. Some Threat Statistics from Microsoft […]
07
Feb
Feb
Why i.t.NOW Doesn’t Provide Hourly Support Why doesn’t i.t.NOW provide hourly support? It’s a perfectly fair question to ask. Wouldn’t hourly be the way to go? You only pay for what you use, nothing else…right? It seems like a great idea but there are some major pitfalls to hourly support we’ve learned through the years. […]
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Jan
Jan
Windows 7 End of Life FAQ As many may already know Windows 7 died recently. It happened on January 14th. There was a brief teary-eyed service with much lamenting. Now it’s time to move on. Windows 7 is survived by its loving progeny Windows 10. There are a bunch of questions around and end of […]
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Jan
Jan
Most Common Forms of Ransomware Some recent analysis done by the folks at Emisoft this last year gives us additional data about the current evolving state of ransomware threats. They looked at 230,000 submissions between April and September of 2019 and gathered data on the different strains of ransomware. The results help us to see […]
