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The Importance of Creating a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan
As your business grows it only becomes more important for you to have a disaster recovery plan. Although it’s obvious that you are losing money when your business is down, the cause of your downtime can be more devastating than you might think. Some of the most...
Multi-Factor Authentication(MFA) – Why it’s so important
Multi-Factor authentication (MFA) may sound complicated, but in practice it's very easy to understand. Simply put, when you sign in somewhere with a username and password, your password is one factor of authentication. Multi-Factor is just the use of more than one...
Colonial Pipeline Hack – Attack Vector Identified
It has now been more than a month since the attack on Colonial Pipeline that resulted in the shutdown of the largest fuel pipeline in the US. Investigators now know that the intrusion was made possible by an exposed VPN credential. A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is...
Colonial Pipeline Hack – What Happened?
What happened? On the morning of May 7th, 2021 Colonial Pipeline experienced a ransomware attack. According to the FBI, this attack was carried out by a hacking group known as Darkside. Shortly after this attack, Colonial announced they were shutting down their 5,500...
Must Haves For Working Remotely in 2021
Not long ago when I imagined working remotely I had visions of being leaned back into a comfy leather recliner at some hip coffee shop with indie music playing in the background and surrounded by a wonderfully complicated dark aroma of roasting coffee beans. Laptop on...
Consensual phishing: How to crack your half-forgotten crypto password
Phil Dougherty has a side hustle as a friendly hacker. By day, he's a software developer at the University of Wisconsin, building free educational games and conducting research on the ways people play them. Meanwhile, back at home, Dougherty is the shepherd of a...
5G is critical to the competitiveness and future success of America’s small businesses
The widespread roll-out of 5G is coming.