Pitney Bowes Company Recently Hit By Ransomware

If you’re a business owner, you probably utilize at least a few of the services Pitney Bowes offers.  They maintain a global shipping, mailing, e-commerce and financial services empire that touches just about every country on the planet. The company has more than 1.5 million customers and service 90 percent …

RobbinHood Ransomware Another Reason To Back Up Your Systems

The creators of the dreaded ‘Robbinhood’ ransomware strain are putting their reputation to work for them.  The hackers have recently modified their ransom note in a couple of important ways. First and foremost, they stress that there’s no public decryption tool currently available to recover files encrypted by RobbinHood and …

Malicious Apps Continue Getting Past Google On Play Store

Say what you want about Google, but the company has a solid track record of doing all they can to keep the Google Play Store relatively free of malicious apps. By most accounts, they have been wildly successful at that. Unfortunately, given the sheer number of apps available on the …

Several New Issues Being Seen With Apple’s Latest iOS

Apple is the largest tech company in the world. Their iPhones are in the hands of legions of loyal, faithful users all across the globe. Unfortunately, the latest build of the iPhone’s operating system, iOS 13.1.2, has been plagued with serious issues that render their vaunted smartphones virtually useless. Even …

Update Whatsapp Or Risk Security Vulnerability

Do you use Whatsapp on an Android device? If so, you’ll want to upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible. Recently, a critical vulnerability being tracked as ‘CVE-2019-11932’ was discovered that allows hackers to gain access to your chat logs and personal information by sending you a poisoned …

Three Years Later, Zendesk Discovers Data Breach

File this one away under ‘better late than never.’  Zendesk, a popular customer support ticketing platform, has only recently discovered evidence of a data breach that dates back to November 2016. To make matters worse, they admitted in a recent blog post that they only discovered the breach when they …

Ransomware Sets Sights On Healthcare Organizations

A string of hospitals in both the US and Australia have come under attack by hackers in recent weeks. They have been targeted by ransomware attacks that have effectively shut a number of them down.  As of the time this article was written, the Northport Medical center, Fayette Medical Center, …

Deana and Jason Pizzo with award

I.T. Solutions of South Florida Nabs Two Corporate Honors

Photo by Jock Fistick, South Florida Business Journal Lake Worth, FL – October 15, 2019 – Normally his energy and enthusiasm are impossible to contain. And it was no different when Jason Pizzo learned he was a top three finalist for the CIO Award for companies with revenue under $50 …