Cyber Security Awareness Month: Update your Software
Software updates are necessary to keep your devices running smoothly – and software updates often lower security vulnerabilities as well.
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What is Phishing?
“Phishing” can mean a handful of different things but generally encompasses all socially engineered email attacks. Check out some examples of Phishing in this article.
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Cyber Security Awareness Month: Multi Factor Authentication
When you add layers of authentication (like MFA or 2FA), you add layers of security to your accounts, data, and systems.
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Cyber Security Awareness Month: Phishing
All successful phishing and email-based ransomware attacks are disruptive and damaging on some level.
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Cyber Security Awareness Month: Managing Passwords
Many people use flimsy passwords to “lock up” their most valuable assets, including money and confidential information.
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What is a phishing email?
Phishing (pronounced: fishing) is an attack that attempts to steal money or data by getting you to reveal personal information on websites or through emails that pretend to be legitimate.
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How to detect a phishing email?
Vigilance in detecting phishing emails and educating your employees to be proactive and recognize risk is a crucial step in protecting your organization.
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How secure are your passwords?
Partek manages over 4,000 passwords for over 500 organizations through our asset management tools. Keeping access to our client’s critical assets secure and maintained. Every year, mainstream and tech media will report on the latest list of the “worst” passwords choices that everyday users make. And every year, I.T. Techs around the world cringe when […]
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The optics of using free email as your business email
What email address do you use for your business? Does it end with @gmail.com, @outlook.com, @yahoo.com, or @hotmail.com? There are inherent risks that should be enough to avert you from using a personal email account for business purposes. Personal email accounts exist outside of your I.T. companies control and they are not subject to […]
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Microsoft issues critical Office 365 phishing warning
Microsoft 365 customers could be at risk. Microsoft has issued a warning on Twitter for users of its Office 365 service that a potentially malicious app called ‘Upgrade’ is going around to hundreds of its customers via consent phishing emails. Microsoft says the email asks for users to grant OAuth permissions to create inbox rules, […]
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CISA urges organizations to strengthen their cybersecurity defenses
Last week, at least fifteen Ukrainian public institutions and government agencies’ websites were hacked and defaced by a new malware family Microsoft calls ‘WhisperGate’. Microsoft warns of the new malware family disguised as ransomware which is being used in attacks against multiple organizations in Ukraine. Since January 13th, Microsoft detected attacks that implement a destructive […]
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Top Online Scams of 2021
Recent reporting from CTV News describes the top five scams that Canadians fell for in 2021 Even though many overseas scam boiler rooms and call centers closed down at the beginning of the pandemic, Canadians spent more time online or on social media, which made many people more vulnerable to investment fraud, romance scams, and […]
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How hackers use phishing emails in ransomware attacks
Phishing attacks work because people like to click on things. Hackers carefully tailor attacks to their victims by collecting publicly available personal information about them and playing to their sense of urgency to get a response. The attackers only need one person within your organization to click on the link or open an attachment. A […]
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Are you at risk for a Cyber Attack?
6 best practices to secure your business You can’t go long without seeing another headline about a cyber-security breach impacting a high-profile company. In recent years, cybercriminals have gotten their hands on millions of social insurance numbers, passwords, company trade secrets, and more. Security breaches have increased 67% over the past five years and companies […]
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Small / medium sized businesses are the most vulnerable to ransomware right now
For as much media attention ransomware is getting with large-scale cyber-attacks, it appears that many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have failed to embrace the idea that they are ransomware targets. After all, why target an SMB when Fortune 500 companies have much deeper pockets? It appears when it comes to small businesses the sentiment […]
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Microsoft Exchange Hack. What You Need to Know
Protect your organization against vaccine-related phishing emails using these tactics. Ensure your policies and software can protect you.
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