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Help Protect Your Friends And Family From Phone Scams

Written on May 19, 2012 by Ernie Sherman in Business in General

Published by Chris Di Lullo on http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/

A few weeks ago, I was surprised to get a call from Microsoft offering to help “fix my window”. This was surprising because:

My window wasn’t broken and having worked at Microsoft for a while, I’m pretty sure we don’t do home repairs.
Microsoft doesn’t call people out of the blue to offer technical support (I knew what he was really talking about).

When I replied that I didn’t realize that Microsoft had anything to do with the windows on my house and there wasn’t anything wrong with them, the caller quickly set me straight. This was about my computer and he was going to help me, all I had to do was give him some information and then install a program on my PC.

Here is a great website for anti-fraud in Canada.

Here is a great information graphic produced by Microsoft.

Microsoft Phone Scams

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U.S. Government Movin’ on Up Into the Cloud

Written on May 18, 2012 by Ernie Sherman in Business in General, chief information officer, cloud computing model, collaboration tools, encryption, federal government, Fedex Corporation, Medicare, mission applications, Politics, U.S. government, Vivek Kundra

Folks in the United States have been griping about how much the US federal government spends three years. Well, according to an article by Joe McKendrick, the government may have finally started taking these complaints seriously. Federal agencies that have adopted cloud computing have already saved approximately $5.5 billion, according a federal IT consortium that McKendrick…

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Texting While Walking a No-No in One New Jersey City

Written on May 16, 2012 by Ernie Sherman in Business in General

We’ve all heard about the devastating consequences of texting while driving, but few ever consider the dangers of texting while walking. On London’s Brick Lane, you can see pads wrapped around lamp posts because so many people have hurt themselves as a result of walking into the posts while reading or sending text messages. The…

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How to Avoid a Common Email Hacking Threat

Written on May 16, 2012 by Ernie Sherman in associate computer science professor, Business in General, Carnegie Mellon University, Computer crimes, E-mail spoofing, Jason Hong, mine LinkedIn, Riva Richmond

Despite Gen Y’s love for sending text messages, email is still the most common form of electronic communication, especially in the business world. So, the last thing that you want is to have your or an employee’s email to get compromised by a hacker. One common email hacking method is something called “spear phishing,” and…

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How to Avoid a Common Email Hacking Threat

Written on May 16, 2012 by Ernie Sherman in Business in General, Carnegie Mellon University, Computer crimes, E-mail spoofing, Jason Hong, mine LinkedIn, Riva Richmond

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2 New Russian Ransomware Scams – Warn Your Employees

Written on May 15, 2012 by Ernie Sherman in Avira security software, Business in General, Extortion, illegal online activity, Ransomware

From: CyberheistNews Check out their free phishing test at http://www.knowbe4.com/phishing-security-test/ Just in the last week, two new Ransomware scams were found in the wild. One scam accuses the end-user of copyright violation, as content was found on the victim’s PC and has been moved to an encrypted directory. To release the encrypted data, and to prevent…

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Helpful Tips for Upgrading Your IT Security

Written on May 15, 2012 by Ernie Sherman in Business in General, Jason Fell, Owned

If it seems like every time you turn around there’s another article about the importance of Internet and computer security, you’re right. The dangers of the Internet continue to change as hackers grow more sophisticated. The need to protect your business’ network and files can never be overstated. Downtime will be the least of your…

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