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Reprinted from The US Department of Homeland Security Cyber Awareness Campaign June 2017 Newsletter You teach your children to wear helmets when they ride bikes and sunscreen when they’re outside, but are you also teaching them to be safe online? … Continued

Security Alert:  HIDDEN COBRA – North Korea’s DDoS Botnet Infrastructure Alert (TA17-17-164A) was released by US-CERT, and there have been reports this week from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week about multiple vulnerabilities with Microsoft products, including the Windows … Continued

Contributed by Fulcrum Group Systems Engineer, Tyson Rasanen Do you find it extremely time consuming to go through your email in attempts to find your action items? Does it drive you mad going through the 178th email this morning where you … Continued

Instructions contributed by Dale Hauser   Before setting up email on your Android, please make sure it is connected to Wi-Fi. Click on Settings on your phone Click Accounts | Add Account The Add Account screen will appear. Click on … Continued

Security Alert:  Android “Cloak & Dagger” Vulnerability Uncovered “Cloak and dagger” is a new kind of vulnerability affecting Android mobile devices (including the latest Android version, 7.1.2).  The vulnerability was discovered by computer scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology.  “Attacks allow … Continued

Brace yourself for a potential 2nd wave of malware/ransomware attacks, as Windows SMB wasn’t the only network protocol whose zero-day exploits created by exposed by the Shadow Brokers. Microsoft released patches for the Windows SMB flaws for supported versions of … Continued

We want our clients to know there are steps we can all take to help prevent the WannaCry Ransomware (and all forms of targeted maliciousness) from affecting your business environment.  Below, we’re sharing the notice we received from the Department … Continued

Contributed by Robert Curtis How many employees do you know that say to themselves, “I am going to go into work today and make a mess of things.” Hopefully, none!  Most everybody has good intentions to do the best job … Continued

Successful IT Vendor Management   One of the most time-consuming tasks in day-to-day business operations for CEOs and IT Managers is bringing about a successful process of IT vendor management.  These resources might include everyone from software and telecom vendors, Internet Service Providers, to Cloud … Continued

Contributed by Steve Meek   Do you ever wish someone could just explain computer security in easy terms? As a security practitioner, I’ve invested a good portion of my life – and many a detailed discussion – in technology and … Continued