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Security Alert: Increase in Social Engineering Combined with Spear Phishing We’ve detailed the seemingly countless varieties of cybersecurity attacks to hit businesses and organizations over the past few years many times in our Fulcrum Group blog, monthly e-newsletters and in … Continued

The Department of Homeland Services reported a torrent of bomb threats were emailed to universities, businesses, schools and  news outlets Thursday, December 13th.  The threats from New York City to San Francisco sent police departments scrambling to sort out what … Continued

Security Alert: 500 Million Marriott Guest Records Stolen in Starwood Data Breach The world’s biggest hotel chain Marriott International today disclosed that unknown hackers compromised guest reservation database its subsidiary Starwood hotels and stole the personal data of about 500 … Continued

  Switchvox clients, here’s a great tip from Digium on how to add your company logo to Digium’s D-Series phones.                

Security Alert:  SharePoint Phishing Attack on Office 365 Users There’s a new SharePoint Phishing Attack scam circulating for stealing login credentials. Office 365 users are being targeted by malicious invites sent via email to open a SharePoint document. The link … Continued

Contributed by David Johnson In recent months, I have had a lot of conversations with my peers in IT companies around the USA.  One of those conversations was around the language used by IT professionals. The question was asked: “How … Continued

Security Alert: FBI asks all router owners to reboot now to neuter Russia’s VPNFilter malware The FBI is urging small businesses and households to immediately their home and small business reboot routers following Cisco’s report that more than 500,000 infected … Continued

Recently, the FBI issued an announcement on new guidelines to help protect against “technical support fraud,” where criminals may pose as a security, customer, or technical support representative offering to resolve such issues as a compromised e-mail or bank account, … Continued

There’s no doubt that small businesses are becoming the favorite target of hackers and organized criminal groups. There are a few critical things you can do to protect your small business. End User IT Security Awareness Training, such as what’s included … Continued