Our company focus is on business computers, but we often get asked about home computers. It is just as important to protect your home computers as it is to protect your business computers. In fact, it is almost more important now with all the remote work. Here are a few tips to help secure your […]
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Malware Targets Consumer Devices
Last month, a strain of malware was found to be infecting the devices that provide people with internet service, known as routers. It targeted mostly consumer devices made by companies like Cisco Linksys, Netgear, and TP-Link. Researchers found that it had the ability to spy on data passing through these devices, as well as the […]
What Is Ransomware?
Sure, you’ve heard the phrase “ransomware”, and some of its specific variants like Locky, Crypto, or WannaCry, since they’ve made headlines, but what exactly is “ransomware”? Google defines the term “ransomware” as “a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid”. That’s straightforward and […]
Ransomware Strikes Again
As you may already know, on Friday May 12th there was a massive ransomware attack that at last count has affected over 150 countries and more than 350,000 computers. It is taking advantage of a security hole in Windows that Microsoft fixed in March. Make sure your system has the latest updates installed, and that […]