Mail Tribune reported that Southern Oregon University is just the latest victim of CEO fraud (which the FBI calls Business Email Compromise or BEC) after hackers used social engineering to trick university employees into transferring money into one of the bad guys' controlled bank accounts.
Today, creating a truly secure organization requires access to highly specialized knowledge, intelligence, and expertise in order to stay at least one step ahead of the evolving risks.
Please be aware of the following social engineering red flags:
E-mail and instant messaging (IM) are terrific forms of communication for keeping in touch with family, friends, and business associates. However, using them unwisely may make you and your computer susceptible to spam, phishing scams, viruses, and other online threats. Here are some tips to avoid these problems:
Learn how the extensive array of tools available in Microsoft’s SharePoint can provide a centralized, password-protected space for document sharing, and help your employees collaborate better. SharePoint works alongside Office 365 to allow organizations of all sizes to increase their efficiency using a browser-based collaboration platform.
Please consider these top ten resolutions for managing and enhancing your company’s infrastructure and technology investments:
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Complete a Backup Assessment
Are you confident about your backups and your ability to restore data if needed? The following tasks should be included in your regular Backup Assessments:
Why Upgrade My Current Operating System?
By: Papa Faal, Senior IT Consultant/Trainer
Every product has a lifecycle, which begins when the product is first introduced to consumers and ends when the software company no longer provides support for that product.
Microsoft’s latest incarnation of Remote Desktop Services with Windows Server 2008 R2 has included extensive improvements with VDI, remoteapp, web access and brokerage services. These features have extended the capabilities of RDS in the corporate workplace.
Steps to activate an Existing MAK licensed Windows 7 workstation and new workstation deployments: Please click here to contact us if you have any questions about this post or issues during your set up.
Recently one of our clients requested a printing solution for their Remote Desktop Services configuration. This particular client had users that would connect at the office, RDP into the RDS farm and print to their Active Directory-mapped default printer. This was all well and good until any of the users took their laptops home and tried to print in a RDP session. Because the RDP client connection was set to automatically map the default printer, the user was still using their work printer as the default.