It all began when a software update to the routers on Rogers national network went awry in the early morning hours of Friday, July 8th and ended up taking down the entire system, leaving millions of Canadians without access to cellphone, home or business Internet, and also affected Interac terminals and other business services.
Microsoft is warning all Windows 10 users that a previously unknown, and therefore unpatched, vulnerability is being exploited by cybercriminals. This is a new zero-day vulnerability and is rated as high (only one notch down from the top - critical) because it could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a victim computer, and potentially take complete control of it.
Microsoft recently announced the discovery of a critical vulnerability in its Exchange Server products: attackers of any sophistication level can easily exploit these flaws. Microsoft has urged companies that use on-premise Exchange servers or have servers with “OWA” websites available to the internet for any reason to apply these fixes as soon as possible, as well as review their networks for any indicators of compromise (IOCs).
Owing to variations in how email is hosted, this exploit does not exist for organizations that have moved to Microsoft 365. Since the majority of our clients use Microsoft 365, only a handful of Sentryon IT's clients have been affected by this vulnerability.
Have you ever seen a deer staring at a car's headlights? The exact same situation is going on right now with Coronavirus/COVID-19. People are frozen in fear, eyes locked on the news, unable to think clearly. This may be okay for most, but for an entrepreneur responsible for leading a business, it’s a surefire way to get killed.
It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and nowhere is that truer than when collaborating with a team, or trying to explain something visual to someone not sitting right beside you.
Taking screenshots of your Windows or Mac desktop is incredibly useful, including for showing that strange error messages to your IT help desk that never pops up when they're looking.
On Friday, September 28, 2018, Facebook notified users of a massive data breach affecting some 50+ million accounts, although the breach actually had occurred a few days earlier on Wednesday afternoon.
Q: Was My Account Impacted?
A: If your account was impacted two things will have happened.
In the world of cyber-crime today, the most common type of attack by far is email phishing. Cyber-criminals send out emails that appear to be from trusted organizations, urging them to take a specific action - usually either opening an attachment or clicking a link.
Just a month after the then-historic WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack went viral around the globe, another one dubbed "Petya" started hitting Europe early this morning, then spread to North America as the work day started and people switched on their computers on and logged in.
In the past 96 hours, the WannaCry ransomware attack has become the most widespread cyber-attack of its kind in history, affecting more than 300,000 computer in 150 countries around the world. Given the scale of this threat, we felt it was important to alert you.
Ransomware Security Protection in Vaughan, Brampton and Bolton, Ontario
You may have seen on the news recently that a new strain of ransomware (malicious software that locks down your files and then demands a ransom to restore access) called WannaCry was ripping through the Internet and infecting computers in high-profile organizations, including Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs, several branches of the U.K.'s National Health Service, and Spanish phone company Telefonica, just to name a few.