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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,...
One clue to DarkSide origins
One Clue to dark side's origins is that the problems are deeper and not as dark as some make out. Dark makes it sound like there is not enough light obscuring what's going on in attacks like the one on Colonial Pipelines. There is more than knowledge among...
Keep your business safe with a password update policy
An alert pops up on your computer: It’s time to change your password again. Sigh. Fine. You’ll just change from password4! to password5! and— Not so fast. Regular password changes are meant to make sure that even if someone gets your login credentials, they won’t be...
Microsoft 365 apps and services
Reminder: Microsoft 365 apps and services ending support on IE11 after August 17, 2021 MC241353 · TEKMAR SOLUTIONS, INC. As communicated in MC220490 (August ’20), Microsoft 365 apps and services will be focusing their efforts on modern browser support over the coming...
Stay home, stay connected and be encouraged
Another storm is on the way. It's troubling because, driving past parking lots they filled with cars, people are worried about supplies, which is understandable. The pandemic is not over and we should all be budgeting time to get everything we need to handle any...
Best password is unique
If you use the same password for multiple systems—online shopping, email, your company’s cloud bookkeeping solution, etc.—you are not alone. The best password is unique, yet even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg did that. And in 2016 his LinkedIn credentials were...