Blog / How Much Good Do VPN’s Really Do? Over the past few decades, the internet has become increasingly important to businesses of every size and variety. From its inception in the 80s to its widespread adoption in the late 90s and early 00s to its vast size and increasing complexity of the modern day, businesses have come to rely on internet access as […] March 25, 2021
Blog / What is Social Engineering? When most people think about hacking they normally picture something out the movies. You know the scene; some hooded hacker at a keyboard performing all sorts of technological wizardry to get around a computer’s defenses. Unfortunately that’s also exactly how most organizations set up their hacking defenses. The problem is there’s a hole in that […] March 22, 2021
Blog / Is your IT ready for employees to return? Now is the time to prepare your offices for the new work world. With COVID-19 vaccines finally being deployed across the country, there’s hope for a return to normalcy, or at least something like it, over the coming months. Working remotely may be a useful tool for extreme situations and occasional work-from-home days, but there’s […] March 18, 2021
Blog / Canada-Wide Microsoft Teams Outage (UPDATED) On March 15, 2021, we (and thousands of other businesses) experienced issues with our phone system (based on Microsoft Teams). There was a Canada-wide outage for Teams and we were unable to receive calls. At approximately 4:15PM, we were able to restore use of our phone systems. We apologize for the inconvenience.     March 15, 2021
Blog / Phishing Emails – Effective for hackers, hard to detect for filters Phishing Training Phishing emails and spam both come at you through the same medium: email. That means the defenses against both are also the same. It’s down to your spam filtering to keep you protected from spam and other harmful email messages. Spam filtering checks can be configured as either hard or soft checks. The terms hard and soft don’t refer […] March 15, 2021
Blog / Being Smart About Smart Devices Smart devices have been with us for a long time now. Although they only became ubiquitous in the last several years, smart devices can be traced all the way back to 1994 and IBM’s Simon Personal Communicator. That means, from some perspectives, we’ve been living with smart devices for almost 30 years now (27 if […] March 11, 2021
Blog / URGENT—Exchange Server Vulnerability Update On Wednesday March 3rd we detailed a server “zero-day” security vulnerability discovered in Exchange Server 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. At the time it was noted that while the vulnerability had been exploited prior to the patches being available, Microsoft had suspected that only a handful of high-profile organizations had been compromised by a Chinese […] March 09, 2021
Blog / “Zero-day” security vulnerability discovered on Microsoft Exchange servers On Tuesday March 2nd Microsoft released notice of a “zero-day” security vulnerability discovered in Exchange Server 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. Zero-day vulnerabilities are vulnerabilities in software that have been present since initial release of the software. These vulnerabilities are often discovered after they are exploited for malicious purposes and there is little defense against them […] March 03, 2021

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