It goes without saying that the pandemic has changed a great many things about life, as well as the world we live and work in. One significant change on the work front has, of course, been the dramatic rise in the number of people working from home. We’re reaching a …
Looking Back at 2020, Looking Ahead to Total Cloud
We opened 2020 celebrating our 16th year of serving our clients wholeheartedly while looking forward to expanding our technical team and introducing a revolutionary new service to further support our growing customers. Like many people, our lives changed dramatically in March and we all rapidly shifted to a work from …
Looking Back on 2019 and Seeing 2020!
We celebrated several monumental milestones this year including our 15th anniversary, record-setting growth and a few unique new honors. Your Lake Worth-based Managed Service Provider opened the first quarter in 2019 by adding two new team members and plans are already in the works to add more network engineers as …
Employees Targeted By Hackers Posing As HR Department
Just when you think scammers couldn’t get any lower, they find new ways to prove you wrong. Recently, a new phishing scam has been spotted in the wild, this one baiting potential victims with the possibility of pay raises. The scammers structured their email so that they appeared to come …
American Express Employee Compromises Customer Information
American Express has been quietly contacting some of its customers with a tersely worded communication that reads, in part, as follows: “It was brought to our attention that personal information related to your American Express Card account listed above, may have been wrongfully accessed by one of our employees in …
Survey Shows Employees Would Compromise Company Data
A recent report published by nCipher confirms what many business owners have known for a long time. Their employees are the weakest link when it comes to data security. The nCipher report, however, adds a disturbing exclamation point to the data with a few details you’re likely to find shocking. …
Welcoming Two New Team Members!
Please join us in welcoming two recent additions to our I.T. Solutions of South Florida family – Mike Gavaghen and Megan Knipper! Mike fills a unique role with us as the Vice President of Management Solutions and Megan is our newest Network Engineer. While their titles are different, Mike and …
New Survey Shows People Still Have Bad Password Habits
For the last several years, industry experts have been sounding the alarm about password security. We’ve known for quite some time that one of the biggest weak spots in corporate security is the fact that employee passwords are notoriously weak. Millions have been spent on security education. Seminars have been …
Scammers Are Using Direct Deposit Requests To Steal Money
Last year, the FBI issued a warning regarding BEC (Business Email Compromise) scams. Unfortunately, security professionals report that those types of scams are increasing in frequency, and worse, the most recent ones come with a disturbing new twist. The latest incarnation of the scam targets employees, seeking to move their …
Most Travelers Are Oblivious To Security Risks During Travel
Over the course of the holiday season this year, more than half of the working adults in the United States will be traveling with one or more of their work devices. Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of those fully appreciate the data security risks inherent in travel, which is a …