Big news this week as Webroot released their 2018 security report. Cryptomining Dethrones Ransomware as #1 Threat Phishing: the Unrelenting Attack Phishing and targeted social engineering attacks continue on the rise: Webroot saw phishing attempts increase by more than 60% from January to June in 2018. Figure 2: Websites most...
The Facebook Breach Affected 50 Million Users Facebook recently announced a major data breach took place on Friday the 28th of September, in which an estimated 50 million personal accounts were put at risk by a flaw in the social network’s code. It allowed hackers to...
Secure Your IT Systems with Our New CyberHawk Service With the ever-increasing threat of suffering an online attack, businesses across the world are improving their IT security packages and in-house protocols in order to prevent damaging security failures, potential fraud, and the reputational damage that a...
SOS Support is always staying on top of the latest IT technologies so that we can service our clients in the best way possible. One of these new services that we have introduced is Autotask Workplace.“Autotask Workplace is an Enterprise-grade Cloud file sync and share platform. The...
SOS Support is excited to announce that we’ve made the list for Channel Futures #MSP501 2018 Edition - The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Best MSPs! The Channel Futures MSP 501 List Every year, managed service providers (MSPs) around the world apply for Channel Futures annual MSP...
The threat of Ransomware attacks is getting worse. According to experts, there has been an increase in the volume of attacks as well as how much attackers are asking for, often up to $1 million from small to medium-sized businesses. Businesses in developed countries like...
Image Credit About a week ago, reports from the FBI of a new type of malware surfaced. This new malware is now known as VPNFilter, and targets routers, rather than pc’s or servers. Routers, as you may or may not know, are a network hub or gateway...
Today I received this PowerPoint tip from our Office 365 Adoption. Office 365 Adoption is a Office 365 Add-on service that costs $2/mo. per user and it's goal is to help educate your users on how to maximize and get the most use out of...
Another Day, Another Data Breach Scandal It seems like everywhere you look these days, there is a large data breach. The latest has been with Facebook which experienced a privacy and security lapse. At the time of writing, Facebook had admitted that the personal information of...
In The World Of Social Media, Is Your Business Safe? You have seen the headlines; the largest social media platform, Facebook, has recently come under scrutiny over a data scandal. Users’ data was sold to a data mining company without their knowledge or permission. This affected...