by Sam Feder | Oct 11, 2022 | Best Practices, Positive Tech Solutions, Security
Phishing emailsTo help you identify phishing emails, lets look into a few common red flags to keep in mind. Emails Address:Are you sure that this email from Microsoft is actually from Microsoft? Look again!Phishing emails will usually fake the display name of the...
by Sam Feder | Mar 16, 2020 | Best Practices, IT Support, Security
We are prepared and ready to help. As the situation with coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to develop, our entire team is ready and standing by to support you. You rely on us every day for your technical needs, and we’re going to continue providing reliable...
by Sam Feder | Nov 8, 2019 | Alerts, Security
Windows 7 – Server 2008 EOL (End of Life) If you have Windows 7 computers, they’re at risk of being killed in January. Beginning January 2020, Windows will stop updating Windows 7. As we’ve previously discussed, this is called the End Of Life for the OS. Any bug...
by Sam Feder | Jun 7, 2019 | Security
Ransomware delivered through open Remote Desktop: Most businesses assume they are not big enough to be targeted by hackers. How would a hacker even find their digital footprint?Since the vast majority of ransomware attacks exploit Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), the...
by Sam Feder | Apr 26, 2019 | Miscellaneous, Positive Tech Solutions, Privacy, Security
Your identity has quite a lot of value, especially in the wrong hands. Security firm ZoneAlarm put together some numbers in 2011 concerning identity fraud, and it even shocked us. Let’s talk about a few of these statistics and what it means. First of all, what...
by Sam Feder | Apr 12, 2019 | Best Practices, IT Blog, Positive Tech Solutions, Security
Email is (and has been) a prime method of communication for businesses of all sizes. With email comes a whole slew of issues that are essentially synonymous with the technology; spam, information overload, phishing, and information privacy. Even New York small...