Urgent scam alert: Microsoft is NOT calling you…
With so much in the news lately about Heartbleed and Microsoft’s end of support for XP, hackers are taking advantage of a heightened sense of confusion and fear. We’ve seen an uptick in the numbers of attacks, and wanted to warn you about the revival of the Microsoft Tech Support scam in particular. The call […]
Heartbleed: An historic attack
What does Heartbleed mean for you, and what can you do? Heartbleed – the name of the latest internet threat – may sound like something out of a horror film, but given our reliance on the web today and the extent of the bug’s impacts, that may not be so far off. Security experts have […]
Special delivery for your documents
Too many accountants are using the body of emails to deliver information instead of using the attachment function. By: Dwayne Bragonier, published in CPA Magazine, April 1, 2014 More and more, we are delivering our finished goods electronically via email. That’s OK, as long as the expertise being shared — the interpretation of data, presentation of […]
Why you need 2-step authentication, and how to enable it
My wife and I woke up this morning to find an email from a good friend of ours, sent at 3:09AM, with the subject: URGENT! Needless to say, we were worried. This is what the email said: Am so sorry to bother you, am in a terrible situation right now and will need your urgent help. […]
10 Top Password and Cyber Security Tips for Every Small Business
As a small business you might be thinking, “this only happens to the big companies with LOTS of information”. You’re wrong. Small Biz Technology had a great post last week about cyber security for small businesses. It was short and to-the-point, so I won’t repeat the whole thing here, but I’ll try to summarize it […]