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The Benefits Of Managed IT Service Providers
Managed IT Services is a term that refers to the practice of outsourcing your company’s IT computer network support and management to improve business operations. Companies that provide these managed services are called Managed Services Providers (MSP).
These MSP companies would take the place of a full-time IT professionals that you would normally have on staff. But that’s not the only advantage of managed services.
1. REDUCE RISK
Every investment your business makes carries a certain risk. Government regulations, technologies, markets, financial conditions and markets all change at a rapid pace. When you utilize an outsourcing provider, they tend to manage a lot of this risk for you because of our industry knowledge in areas such as compliance and security issues.
2. PROACTIVE SOLUTIONS
When you choose to outsource your IT as a proactive effort, you receive better performance, nearly zero downtime and fewer glitches. They help detect problems to … Read the rest
Your vCIO Should Achieve These 10 Technology Priorities For 2020
There are 10 priorities that your vCIO should accomplish for 2020. But if your not sure what a vCIO is or does the term “vCIO” stands for “virtual Chief Information Officer” – basically an outsourced IT department or department head. The idea of outsourced IT is becoming more viable throughout the business world. After all, if one can virtualize an entire administration crew, why not outsource C-level employees in the same way if it is more efficient?
Many companies do not have the need for a full-time CIO, yet almost every company benefits from the expertise of a digital information specialist. The vCIO is the perfect compromise. Here are a few reasons that your business should be looking to invest in one.
What Is A VCIO?
The vCIO collaborates with and advises clients’ IT departments and performs the same functions as a conventional CIO. Those duties include formulating strategic IT … Read the rest
Microsofts April 9th security update impacts some antivirus software vendors
People have been noticing that Microsoft’s recent April 9th security update is causing some problems with a few antivirus vendors like Sophos, Avira, Avast, McAfee and some others.
Microsoft has stated that the the Security Update is causing end user computers to have very slow startup times bad performance and be unresponsive and even causing systems to fail to boot.
“Microsoft is working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release,” according to Microsoft.
Currently the root cause of the issue by the April 9th security patch is unclear. But both McAfee and Avast suggest that the problems are tied to the change Microsoft made within the Windows Client-Server Runtime Subsystem (csrss.exe). This CSRSS process is a vital part of Windows and is responsible for many windows functions.
Currently there is no fix for this issue.
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Microsoft Outlook.com Email Accounts Breached By Hackers
Many users received a notification from Microsoft Outlook.com letting them know about accounts being breached by hackers.
A Motherboard report said that the breach is “much worse” than what was reported. The hackers were able to access emails and attachments and that the hackers were able to access a large number of Outlook, MSN and Hotmail email accounts.
“We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the compromised credentials and blocking the perpetrators’ access,” a Microsoft spokesperson meanwhile said in a statement.
“Upon awareness of this issue, Microsoft immediately disabled the compromised credentials, prohibiting their use for any further unauthorized access,” Microsoft said. “Our data indicates that account-related information (but not the content of any emails) could have been viewed, but Microsoft has no indication why that information was viewed or how it may have been used.”
Public Announcement from Microsoft
Microsoft said to … Read the rest
Say Goodbye Google+
Recently on January 30th 2019 Google has announced that they will be shutting down Google+ on April 2, 2019.
… Read the restIn December 2018, we announced our decision to shut down Google+ for consumers in April 2019 due to low usage and challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers’ expectations. We want to thank you for being part of Google+ and provide next steps, including how to download your photos and other content.
On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any Google+ pages you created will be shut down and we will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts. Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted. You can download and save your content, just make sure to do so before April. Note that photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.
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Top Worst Passwords Of All Time
Take security serious, here is a lists of the top 500 worst passwords. Any password documented publicly or available in the darkweb can be used in a dictionary attack. This is a form of brute force attack technique for defeating a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase by trying hundreds or sometimes millions of likely possibilities, such as words in a dictionary.
| NO | Top 1-100 | Top 101–200 | Top 201–300 | Top 301–400 | Top 401–500 |
| 1 | 123456 | porsche | firebird | prince | rosebud |
| 2 | password | guitar | butter | beach | jaguar |
| 3 | 12345678 | chelsea | united | amateur | great |
| 4 | 1234 | black | turtle | 7777777 | cool |
| 5 | pussy | diamond | steelers | muffin | cooper |
| 6 | 12345 | nascar | tiffany | redsox | 1313 |
| 7 | dragon | jackson | zxcvbn | star | scorpio |
| 8 | qwerty | cameron | tomcat | testing | mountain |
| 9 | 696969 | 654321 | golf | shannon | madison |
| 10 | mustang | computer | bond007 | murphy | 987654 |
| 11 | letmein | amanda | bear | frank | brazil |
| 12 | baseball | wizard | tiger |
DuckDuckGo better than Google for privacy
#1 — Google tracks you. DuckDuckGo Doesn’t
You share your most intimate secrets with your search engine without even thinking: medical, financial and personal issues, along with all the day to day things that make you, well, you. All of that personal information should be private, but on Google it’s not. On Google, your searches are tracked, mined, and packaged up into a data profile for advertisers to follow you around the Internet through those intrusive and annoying ever-present banner ads, using Google’s massive ad networks, embedded across millions of sites and apps.
In fact, it’s a myth that you need to track people to make money in web search. When you search ‘car’ they can show you a car ad without knowing anything about you. That’s how they make money and it doesn’t involve tracking because it is based on the keyword and not the person. Google could … Read the rest
User Email Security Tips
Email security isn’t just the email provider or your IT administrator’s responsibility. It’s everybody’s responsibility. We all want to avoid having to produce a new resume. Here are some Safety Tips to help you all be protected and keep spam & malware to an absolute minimum.
- Change your password often.
- Use strong passwords. Never use a password that contains “password” or “letmein” or “welcome”.
- Use a different password for each of your accounts. If you use the same password for your bank account as you do for your email account, you become much more vulnerable to data theft.
- Don’t open an attachment unless you know who it is from & are expecting it.
- Be cautious about email messages that instruct you to enable macros before downloading Word or Excel attachments.
- Use anti-virus software on your local machine, and make sure it’s kept up-to-date with the latest virus updates.
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