Author: Jeff Thomas

Everyone in the business world knows that LinkedIn is a powerful tool. However, many businesses have neglected to maximize its potential for marketing success. There is far more to LinkedIn than just connecting with some users and joining a few conversations. As LinkedIn continues to evolve, an increasing number of valuable features are being made […]

Earlier in April, the FBI warned that a group of foreign government-backed hackers known as APT6 has been compromising commercial and governmental networks and stealing information from them since 2011. This surprising news, revealed in an alert the agency issued, stated that these groups are still continuing their activities even after it was discovered that […]

If you are like most people, you don’t even know that Facebook contains a secret message folder. No, this secret message folder is not the same as the “Others” message folder that is often overlooked for months on-end, as emails from senders languish unread because you forget to check them. Instead, this secret message folder […]

Disasters of the natural and cyber nature happen every day and many smaller companies are simply not prepared for the immense amount of recovery that it takes to get back to work. As a mid or smaller level company it is essential that a business continuity plan be in place to aid in the recovery […]

In a day and age where information is king and the internet is used for nearly every business transaction that is made it is now more important than ever that companies protect themselves against potential invasion of privacy and stealing of information. Both the U.S. and Canadian government in recent months have issued warnings to […]

Security breaches are more common than ever, and the number of organizations falling victim to attacks is growing steadily. Hackers are becoming more sophisticated and can now create advanced malware capable of evading even the best point-in-time detection tools, including  antivirus and intrusion prevention systems. These tools are designed to inspect traffic at every point […]

The Veeam Backup and Replication solution is all about providing flexible, fast, and reliable recovery of data and virtualized applications. It combines backup and replication together in a single solution, backed by award-winning support for virtual environments such as VMWare, vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V. This backup solution is powerful, user-friendly and cost-effective combined with the […]

Though Apple is famous for its easy to use computers and extensive security, the company suffered a setback this past week with its first ever “ransomware” attack. Hackers who have yet to be identified infected multiple versions of Apple’s “Transmission” program. Transmission is a tool that allows Mac users to transfer data to one another […]

Major news sites have been exploited by hackers using a malware exploit package known as the “Angle exploit kit.” Some of the targeted sites include The New York Times, BBC, Newsweek, AOL, MSN, The Hill, and the Guardian. A bit of dark humor is in that one of the infected news pages was a Guardian […]

In February 2016, hackers intruded in the computer network of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. After encrypting sensitive medical information, the hackers and the hospital negotiated a ransom of $17,000 to return the files. The hackers were able to get into the hospital’s system through a malicious file called ransomware. Ransomware is […]

When it comes to data backup, there is one thing that should never come into question: Should you? The answer is that yes, no matter what you do, by all means backup data. There are too many things that can happen to data that isn’t backed up, and there are too many horror stories about […]

The world celebrates St. Patrick’s day by doing a variety of quirky things. In Chicago they die the river green—a tradition that started back in 1961, just five years after the city’s first St. Patty’s day parade. Across the world, inhabitants of New London dress up as leprechauns and change highway signs to read “New […]