Month: October 2019
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Adobe Out-of-Band Security Patches
Advisory Overview Adobe Creative Cloud is a popular platform for the use of many different Adobe applications and services. Recently, security researchers uncovered a database cache which was not properly secured to prevent access by unauthorized parties. A database cache...
MSPs and schools can be a good cybersecurity partnership
Achievement tests, rumbling school buses, and Friday night football are a few signs that the educational ecosystem is up and running again for another academic year. Schools are increasingly on the radar of hackers, who view schools as repositories of...
Don’t write an MSP marketing plan, build a marketing strategy instead
Not too long ago, I wrote an article about a topic that has always been near and dear to my heart — market research. If you want to make sure that your message resonates with the right audience at exactly the right...
Gartner outlines top ten technology trends for 2020
The futurist Paul Saffo often reminds IT leaders that it’s important to never mistake a clear view for a short distance. At the annual Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo conference this week, the analyst firm once again identified the top ten strategy...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Cisco Addresses Serious Flaws in Wireless Access Points
Advisory Overview Cisco, one of the leading networking hardware manufacturers, routinely updates and patches components of their product line. Recently, one of these update sets applied to Cisco Aironet wireless access points (WAP’s). WAP’s extend the coverage of a WIFI...
New tools could help users be more security savvy
When it comes to security, your end users are often a weak link in your safety regimen. It’s not because they are malicious or careless. It’s because they often don’t know any better, making them vulnerable to social engineering and...
Why you should make time to attend MSP conferences
The IT conference season is a very busy period when dozens of conferences aimed at IT Solution Providers and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) take place worldwide. Wherever you are in the world, there will be an MSP-focused conference near to...
Tech Time Warp: 20 years later, IoT devices add to cybersecurity risk
As you check your FitBit for your daily step count and ask Alexa to order your groceries and control your “smart” home, it’s hard to imagine life without the ease of the “Internet of Things.” All of these devices —...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: D-Link Routers Unauthenticated Vulnerability
Advisory Overview Several older D-Link routers have a known vulnerability that can allow an attacker to use a legitimate communications channel in illegitimate ways. Through this vulnerability, and attacker could send program code or files that can allow the attacker...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New Microsoft NTLM Flaws May Allow Full Domain Compromise
Advisory Overview NTLM is one of several methods that can be used to authenticate and confirm the identity of a user within a Windows-based network. Two flaws in NTLM were recently found which could allow an attacker to trick NTLM...
