by petratechit | Oct 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you use Facebook then you are no doubt aware that recently the company experienced an outage that took the site offline for several hours. Many people initially assumed that the company had been hacked. However as the outage continued there were none of the...
by petratechit | Oct 22, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Managed IT, Videos
Nowadays, it seems like malicious hacking events are happening every day – so it’s not surprising that more businesses and even our federal government are taking steps to prevent and address cybersecurity issues. President Biden in May of 2021 put out an...
by petratechit | Oct 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Are you a gamer or do you broadcast on Twitch for some other reason? If so be aware that the platform was recently hacked and the amount of information the attackers made off with is much more substantial than was originally estimated. Some of the data has now been...
by petratechit | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Do you have a computer powered by an AMD chipset? Are you excited to upgrade to Windows 11? If you answered yes to both of those questions you should know that at present some AMD processors are struggling to run Windows 11 smoothly. In fact a few processors have seen...
by petratechit | Oct 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Google recently announced that they’re planning to auto-enroll some 150 million user accounts into two factor authentication (2FA). The company prefers the term two-step verification (2SV). The company had this to say about the planned move:...
by petratechit | Oct 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
With the release of Firefox 92 back in September Mozilla made a change that may well doom the browser. If you use Firefox you have probably already noticed it. When you start typing an address you will find sponsored Firefox contextual suggestions in a drop-down list....
by petratechit | Oct 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Medical equipment provider Medtronic has issued an urgent recall order for insulin pump controllers belonging to their “MiniMed Paradigm” family. The company cited serious cyber security risks as the reason for the recall. The models in question are...
by petratechit | Oct 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Researchers from Zimperium zLabs have detected a nasty, dangerous, global malware campaign that has managed to infect more than 10 million Android devices from around the world in more than 70 different countries. As with most malware campaigns this one relies on...
by petratechit | Oct 15, 2021 | Cybercrime, Ransomware, Videos
In the cybersecurity world, 2021 has been a pretty memorable year – for all the wrong reasons. JBS (a meatpacking company) and Colonial Pipeline made headlines in May of 2021 by being the victims of sophisticated cyberattacks. Both companies were severely...
by petratechit | Oct 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Are you a gamer? Do you have an account on Steam, EA Origin, or the Epic Games Store? If so there’s an emerging threat you should be aware of. A new strain of malware is now being sold on the Dark Web. Discovered by researchers operating out of Kaspersky Labs...
