Category: Security

Four areas MSPs need to consider while transitioning to 5G

Four areas MSPs need to consider while transitioning to 5G

For years we’ve anticipated 5G’s arrival, and as we approach 2020, you’ll be hearing about it more and more. Welcome to a world where data is transferred up to 100 times faster than current speeds. Countries like South Korea and...

/ October 30, 2019
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Adobe Creative Cloud User Data Exposed

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Adobe Creative Cloud User Data Exposed

Advisory Overview: Security researchers discovered that subscriber information for Adobe’s Creative Cloud was exposed to the public due to an unencrypted database cache. Technical detail and additional information: What is the threat? Although the database storing customer information was secured,...

/ October 29, 2019
Ask an MSP Expert: Why is multi-factor authentication important?

Ask an MSP Expert: Why is multi-factor authentication important?

Q: My customers don’t always understand the importance of multi-factor authentication and other cybersecurity practices. How can my MSP convince them that this is important and what else should  we be teaching them? Cybercriminals are constantly adapting their tactics in...

/ October 28, 2019
Helping SMBs find the balance between low and high-tech cybersecurity strategies

Helping SMBs find the balance between low and high-tech cybersecurity strategies

Cybersecurity is among the top priorities for companies concerned with growing threats. Yet, many SMBs are not making cybersecurity a top priority. In fact, 43 percent of cyberattacks are targeted at SMBs, but only 14 percent are prepared for an...

/ October 24, 2019
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Adobe Out-of-Band Security Patches

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...

/ October 23, 2019
MSPs and schools can be a good cybersecurity partnership

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...

/ October 23, 2019
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Cisco Addresses Serious Flaws in Wireless Access Points

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...

/ October 21, 2019
New tools could help users be more security savvy

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...

/ October 21, 2019

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...

/ October 17, 2019

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...

/ October 17, 2019