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Safe passwords are peace of mind
When he slips into a phone booth, Tekmar Password Man. becomes Log Me In's Rescues Last Pass Man. After careful annual analysis we are recommending and offering Last Pass for password management. Here is why. Autosave and autofill to reliably capture every password...
New Federal Cyber Infrastructure
New Federal Cyber Infrastructure President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on November 10. In total, the bill dedicates $1.9 billion in funding to address cybersecurity threats to national, state and local government infrastructure. The money...
Don’t let a botnet herder use your systems
The scariest thing about the largest botnet in 6 years, observed, is the part about observed. Don't let a botnet herder use your systems. The observation was in China in late 2019 and most of the infected nodes were there. This short article discusses a cyberthreat...
Extra vigilence on holiday’s phishing ransomware
Extra vigilence on holiday's phishing ransomware excursions for people with systems to to exploit human weaknesses. Be careful is the bottom line. CISA AND the FBI urge people to vigilent, ransomware and it's promary attack vector are exploited more since the...
TSI Layered Security Services
The Problem: Where Will the Next Attack Strike? Your business processes consist of multiple layers supported by your IT environment, each of which can be targeted by advanced cybercriminal tactics. These layers include: Your internet use Your network Your employees...
Microsoft 365 Long Anticipated Price Increase
Microsoft 365 apps and services long anticipated price increas is coming the first quarter of 2022. Microsoft · Tekmar Solutions, Inc. Tekmar became a Microsoft partner in the late 1990s. We were an early adopter of what became Office 365 in 2010 as part of a Back...
Like Darkside REvil goes offline
They may change their entities name, yet the threat they created and profited from continues. We know software as a service well from mainstream technologies widely used today. Organized crime has adopted the same business model distributing their exploits to anyone...
Staying Safe from Phishing Handbook part2: Anti-Phishing Strategy
Staying safe from phishing handnook part 2 - Anti-Phishing Strategy The Handbook for Staying Safe from Phishing part one lays out an awareness that is essential to an anti-phishing strategy. An awareness of the types and methods help form a coherent functional...
PrintNightmare patched partially
Printnightmare has kept IT and systems staff alerted for the past week. It was originally attributed to: An accidental leak Leaking the details for this vulnerability happened by accident, out of a confusion with another issue, CVE-2021-1675, also impacting Print...
Staying Safe from Phishing Handbook part1
Phishing remains the primary cybersecurity threat to businesses and individuals using networked devices. It serves as a gateway for criminal enterprises, exploiting techniques often used by legitimate applications, which complicates detection. To combat this,...