Month: July 2019
Cloud computing growth rates raise cautionary note of concern
The two most recent financial reports from Amazon and Microsoft are raising concerns over the rate at which adoption of cloud services will continue to grow. Amazon revealed Amazon Web Services (AWS) revenue grew 37 percent, to $8.4 billion in...
Cities of all sizes are being targeted by ransomware attacks
Last year, it was Atlanta that was brought to its knees by a ransomware attack, sending the city reeling for weeks. This year, it was Baltimore’s turn. The ranks of municipal ransomware victims looks very different.
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Capital One Data Breach Disclosure
Overview: On Monday June 29, 2019, Capital One (a financial services company that handles credit cards for their own brand and many 3rd-Party brands) publicly disclosed a significant data breach exposing personally identifiable information for millions of their customers. The...
The high cost of being complacent
Growing your business requires work. There’s no shortcut to it. It’s inconvenient. It’s hard. It takes us out of our comfort zones. It requires sacrifice and compromise, and while we believe that we know this going in, I’m not sure...
Tech Time Warp: A quick and dirty history of MS-DOS
In the world of tech history, MS-DOS seems archaic and simplistic to the untrained eye — a command-prompt today’s “digital natives” wouldn’t recognize, let alone appreciate. Of course, the GUIs of today wouldn’t exist without MS-DOS, which was born out...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Router Attack has Hijacked over 180,000 Brazilian routers
Advisory Overview Threat actors have been changing settings on home and small-business routers manufactured by D-Link in order to re-route users to malicious websites. The changes are made after a user loads a website that contains a “poisoned” advertisement –...
IT modernization initiatives will require MSPs to place some big bets
A new wave of IT modernization initiatives is creating opportunities for managed service providers (MSPs) as IT organizations struggle to master the emerging technologies.
Malware resurges with an advertising disguise
Online advertisements can be irresistible. With a TV ad, you have to endure a 30-second spot pushing Corn Flakes or denture cream, whether you have any interest in those items or not. Online ads, however, are targeted to your interests....
How to stay sane in managed services
As a managed services provider (MSP), you are tasked with keeping track of multiple clients, projects, and technologies, all with multiple managers working with multiple internal and external resources. What’s the key to achieving this? You need to STAY ORGANIZED!
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Lenovo-EMC Device Storage Leak Vulnerability
Advisory Overview Several different Lenovo-EMC Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices – including those from the Iomega NAS device line – have critical vulnerabilities that must be patched. These devices, if left unpatched, have the ability to allow a threat actor...