Category Archives: Network Security
May
Zoom Security Concerns Businesses around the US have sent employees home to work following COVID-19 shelter in place orders. This has caused a huge influx of users to video conferencing applications like Zoom. However, security of these products is always a concern, and Zooms complete lack of security is apparent in recent media coverage. Frankly, […]
Apr
Social Media Engineering – Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking that “Harmless Quiz” Most of us are working from home right now. Maybe we have a little more time on our hands than usual. It’s even possible that we spend more time than we used to on social media trying to keep up with […]
Mar
COVID-19 Highlights Security Challenges of Remote Workers With much of the world’s workforce trying out new solutions for working at home, bad actors are taking this opportunity to spread viruses of their own. Current Remote Solutions Lack the Capacity Many companies have not had solutions to work at home widely available, or their current solutions […]
Mar
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 […]
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 […]
Nov
Phishing Scams to Look Out For The Holiday season brings a lot of things with it. The hustle and bustle, the holiday lights. However, scammers are hard at work year-round and they even put in some overtime around the holidays. That’s right, we typically see an uptick in phishing and spam emails this time of […]
Nov
Another Week, Another Hack I don’t like to be a fearmonger. There is a part of me that wishes people would care about network security because it’s the right thing to do. They should care about protecting their client’s data. Largely however, they don’t. Not until it’s too late. I guess it’s time to spread […]
Oct
Scary Stories in IT Support In honor of Halloween I thought this week’s blog could be a compilation of some scary stories in IT Support. Some are crazy, some are scary, some are kinda gross. It can be a crazy world that we live in, and there are some good stories. I asked my techs […]