Month: April 2020
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Hackers Targeting Microsoft SQL Servers
Advisory Overview A new brute force hacking campaign called “Vollgar” targets Microsoft SQL Servers with weak passwords. The campaigns installs a malicious payload to steal information, remote control, and hide its own activity. SKOUT has provided a link to a...
Maximizing manpower for business customers
If you’ve spoken with one of your customers lately, you’ve likely heard common difficulties they are having when managing IT resources. In particular, security teams lacking in staff and necessary skills, yet expected to drive consistent results regardless. Over the...
MSPs can help combat “Zoombombing”
The coronavirus crisis has brought with it a host of new cybersecurity worries from increased phishing attempts to work-at-home vulnerabilities. Add to that the employment uncertainty both at the MSP and client level, and there’s a lot to deal with...
Selling in tough times
The job of the tech salesperson has suddenly become a lot harder, despite a great run of healthy demand and innovation in the recent past. Life’s been pretty good for the past few years. The Brookings Institute reported in 2019...
MSPs must focus on modernizing business continuity plans
By now it’s become apparent just how woefully inadequate the business continuity plans most organizations had in place, if they existed at all, were prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most organizations assume a level of disruption that would last, at...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical VMware Bug (CVE 2020-3952)
Advisory Overview There is a high severity vulnerability in VMware vCenter which could allow an attacker the ability to compromise all virtual machines on a server. The critical flaw scored a 10 out of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring...
Why going ‘security-first’ is key
It’s a cyberthreat perfect storm. Today’s cyberthreat climate, coupled with businesses’ digital transformation and the increase in the remote workforce, makes taking a ‘security-first’ approach crucial for MSPs to be efficient and effective in managing and securing customers’ networks, data,...
MSP Day 2020: Going global virtually
Have you heard the good news? Barracuda MSP is joining forces with CompTIA to deliver a global MSP Day celebration for 2020. Two years ago, Barracuda, a leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions, created the world’s first MSP Day —...
Interviewing remote sales development agents for your MSP
Interviewing is a wildly subjective activity for most small businesses. We are all wired for our own bias, preferences and weird hang-ups. There is no one perfect way to interview, but there are a lot of ways to get yourself...
Tech Time Warp: Looking back at the world of phone phreaks
The disturbing phenomenon of Zoom-bombing has made attempts to conduct normal business (such as a city council meeting) difficult during the COVID-19 pandemic. Zoom’s simplicity makes it widely accessible yet open to security flaws. It’s interesting to note the videoconferencing...
