by Brad Slavin | May 14, 2019 | Phishing Protection
If you ever find yourself the victim of a phishing attack and ransomware, you’ll only have a few options to try and deal with your circumstances.
Today, successful ransomware attacks involve stolen or encrypting the victim’s data. And to get it back, you have to pay the ransom. Of course, paying the ransom is no guarantee that you’ll get your data back, but it’s certainly higher than not paying it.
Continue reading “How One Successful Phishing Attack Lead to Forced Early Retirement” »
by Brad Slavin | May 9, 2019 | Announcements
[5/8/2019]
Earlier today our mail servers prevented some email from reaching some customers. The messages that were impacted had .co.uk in their domain name. Other messages were unaffected.
Continue reading “Post Mortem on Email Outage” »
by Brad Slavin | May 8, 2019 | Phishing Protection
That’s more than 30% of people on the planet with internet access. In one month! All of that during April 2019, bringing the annual total to 5.64 billion. I wonder what will happen in May.
An article on IT Governance Blog details all of the cyber-attacks, ransomware, data breaches and financial information that was compromised during the most recent month. There’s over 70 in the list including 25 healthcare providers and 19 schools and government agencies. I doubt the list is complete. Continue reading “Seriously? Over 1 Billion Records Leaked in One Month” »
by Brad Slavin | May 6, 2019 | Phishing Protection
The last season of Game of Thrones (GoT) is finally on air, and everyone seems to be excited about it! GoT is one of the most successful shows ever to be shown on TV. However, the massive popularity of the show has lead to cybercriminals exploiting people’s love for it by tricking individuals into various online scams, and many people have lost their hard earned money by fraudulent emails in circulation nowadays.
Continue reading “Game of Thrones Phishing Scams: What Do You Need To Know?” »
by Brad Slavin | May 2, 2019 | Announcements
(San Diego, CA – April 24, 2019)
DuoCircle LLC is an integrated, cloud-based email solutions company. DuoCircle has purchased Commando.io, a service that helps IT companies simplify server management. Commando.io is a web-based platform for running commands on servers via SSH.
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by Brad Slavin | May 1, 2019 | Phishing Protection
If you haven’t heard lately, when it comes to getting phished, municipalities and local governments aren’t doing too well. And it’s costing them a lot of money.
According to a recent article on SC Magazine website, four different municipalities were hit with ransomware attacks during the week of April 15, 2019. The article said, “Augusta, Maine; Imperial County, Calif.; Stuart, Fla.; and Greenville, N.C. were all in different stages of recovering from ransomware attacks over the last seven days.”
Continue reading “Phishing Prevention Technology: Why Aren’t Municipalities Onboard?” »
by Brad Slavin | Apr 26, 2019 | Email Security
SMTP service (i.e., email) today is a commodity. So much so, that many businesses pay some other business to “host” their SMTP service for them. This enables the business to send and receive email without having to buy, set up or manage an SMTP server. And judging by how prices have come down over time, it’s fair to assume that there are a lot of hosted SMTP service providers.
Continue reading “Is Your Hosted SMTP Naked?” »
by Brad Slavin | Apr 22, 2019 | Phishing Protection
Phishing protection is big business. There are many providers out there using advanced technologies to protect companies of all sizes. And these technologies are needed, because as research has shown, phishing protection education alone will not protect your company.
Continue reading “If You Can’t Trust Your Phishing Protection Company, Who Can You Trust?” »
by Brad Slavin | Apr 18, 2019 | MX backup
We regularly help businesses migrate from one Office 365 to another Office 365 tenant. A verycommon use case involves the transition between (or within) email providers or splitting out business units or the migration of tenants between organizations. Microsoft warns that a new Office 365 tenant may be inaccessible for as long as 24 hours during the migration, which means there is a chance for email to be lost. Microsoft’s guide to migrating email accounts between Office365 tenants includes the following instruction:
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by Brad Slavin | Apr 17, 2019 | Announcements
Servers go down. And when they do it can negatively impact your business, from lost productivity to lost customers. You don’t want that to happen. Monitoring email is not as simple as checking to see if the port responds, you have to validate that the entire mail flow is functioning. So, how do you find out that your email server is down and not accepting emails or just taking too long to respond? More importantly, how long does it take for you to discover it? Minutes? Hours?
Continue reading “If Your Email Server Stops Accepting Emails How Long Will it Take You to Find Out?” »
