Microsoft Teams Adds Huge Security Feature

In the age of teleconferencing and remote work, Microsoft Teams and Zoom have become household names. Both are great platforms with a bevy of features suited for virtual meetings and workplace collaboration, but Zoom, up until recently, had a key security feature that Teams has lacked: end-to-end encryption.

Why You Should Use Microsoft Teams

With so many people working from home, many businesses are trying to find decent software that combines video, voice, and text chat along with collaborative tools. One such tool is Microsoft Teams: a feature-rich and very capable app with the ability to enhance the way that your own team communicates and collaborates.

ALERT – Update Your iPhone Now!

-- NOTE: This article was already sent out in an earlier newsletter, but we want to make sure that you're covered from these serious vulnerabilities in earlier iOS versions. If you aren't on at least 14.4, this applies to you! -- 

If you have an iPhone and have not yet updated to iOS 14.4, you should do so immediately.

The Cyber Apocalypse

If you're like most of us, you likely have a number of random user accounts that have been created over the years on a variety of different services. Sometimes it's an account on a website that you purchased something from once, or a service that you were indulging a passing interest in.

Security in 2021

2020 was a year of unexpected developments and changes. One change that most of us saw at least in some capacity was the mass shift to telecommuting, or another might have been our increased dependence on electronic forms of, well, everything. The world was already digital, but the pandemic certainly kicked the transition into high gear.

SolarWinds Breach: What It Means For All Of Us

There was a huge security incident recently that is more than likely flying under your radar: SolarWinds, a large cybersecurity and software company that develops tools used by the majority of companies on the Fortune 500 as well as almost all government agencies has discovered that they were infiltrated by threat actors, with the intrusions going as far back as September of 2019. These actors used sophisticated techniques to infiltrate SolarWinds and leveraged that access to distribute infected versions of Orion, one of their most popular network management tools, which is used by at least 10 federal agencies including the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Labor, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and more.

Heads Up! Watch For Amazon Scams During The Holidays

The holiday season may be over now, but it won't be long before we find ourselves gearing up for the Amazon-ordering, gift-box wrapping extravaganza that dominates most people's households during the the final months of the year. It's a magical time, but there are some things that you should be on the lookout for when making purchases for a music-lover, especially now that online shopping is a truly legitimate alternative shopping outlet that is looking to replace brick-and-mortar stores.

Should You Be Worried About Breaches?

Good question. The answer is absolutely yes.

It might seem like a no brainer, but there is a bit more to this than meets the eye. Breaches occur for a variety of reasons, and the information that is stolen or compromised usually varies as well. Sometimes it's just contact information such as emails, names, phone numbers, or addresses.

Updates: They’re For Phones, Too

Computers, regardless of shape, size, or form factor, are incredibly complex by nature. The product that the end user experiences often belies the complexity, particularly in regards to the operating system and the quantity of applications installed on it.

The Things You Don’t See

We've talked about privacy a lot in this newsletter, and as a major player in the social media and data aggregation industry, Facebook has naturally been a common topic. Many people do not seem to be terribly concerned about the rampant data collection that takes place every second you spend using online services or internet-connected devices.